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Dear California Air Resources Board,

I'm writing as a concerned grandmother and earth citizen to say
that your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel
Standard are a huge backslide to the state's role as a climate
leader. The program subsidizes combustion fuels to the tune of
billions of dollars per year and has no place in our toolkit of
climate policies for the 2020s. There is too much on the line for
our climate to get this critical program so wrong. And as the
governor of California, no less. 

Your budget proposes significant delays and cuts of hundreds of
millions of dollars to vital zero-emission transportation programs,
which makes it all the more urgent to use the Low Carbon Fuel
Standard to more fully support zero-emissions transportation.
Historically, California has thrown good money after bad, and
devoted 80% of the LCFS's $3 to 4 billion each and every year to
combustion technology. It would be wild to allow these funds to
continue to languish on the climate sidelines, instead of anchoring
our transition to a zero-emissions future. 

The world has changed a lot since the implementation of the LCFS in
2009. Unlike the 2000s, we have a north star goal for our climate
and the air we breathe: zero emissions transportation.  Continuing
to invest the billions in revenue from the LCFS into harmful and
polluting biofuels that end up combusted, instead of electric
vehicles powered by clean energy, hampers our efforts to fight the
climate crisis while enriching oil companies and industrial
agriculture. 

I urge you in no uncertain terms to correct your course and
modernize the program by reflecting your consensus that the only
way to meet air quality standards is through eliminating combustion
altogether, not piling on billions of dollars in lavish incentives
for combustion each and every year. By focusing on real air
pollution solutions, you could add a clean air multiplier to the
credits system, especially for public fleets that transport many
people at once, would deliver major benefits for California's air
quality and throw a lifeline to cash-strapped transit agencies that
low-income Californians depend on for mobility. 

California cannot meet our clean air and climate goals without
harnessing the power of the Low Carbon Fuel Standard and
overhauling this multibillion-dollar program for our zero emissions
future.

 Please act expeditiously to reform the program to achieve our
state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
marci yellin
173 Hartford St  San Francisco, CA 94114-2513