First Name | Ravin |
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Last Name | Carlson |
Email Address | carlsonclan@cox.net |
Affiliation | U.S. citizen |
Subject | Greenhouse Gas Emissions |
Comment | Big polluters should pay for all their emissions: 100% auction of emissions permits, no free giveaways. - Consider cap-and-trade just a minor tool among market mechanisms. Other tools should be brought forward more robustly, including feed-in tariffs and carbon fees in the Plan's near-term action agenda. - Make sure the 33-percent renewable electricity standard by 2020 is given the force of law, either through legislation or regulatory action. - Promote and enable Community Choice Electricity Aggregation (CCA) and its potentially powerful GHG reduction potential for cities and counties. - Give more specificity and amplitude to the goal of electrifying transportation, especially greatly expanding ZEV numbers (plug-ins and electric cars) beyond CARB's currently too low projected levels. - Greatly strengthen the too-modest land use and agricultural sections of Plan. The Plan greatly underestimates the significance of methane emissions, by using the 100-year global warming potential. Over a shorter time horizon, methane accounts for 17% to perhaps well over 30% of the state's GHGs, rather than the 5.7% in the 2004 inventory. - Further increase requirements for zero waste and recycling, as well as Extended Producer Responsibility. - Ensure that actions to reduce greenhouse gases also help, whenever possible, to clean up California's unhealthy air. - Limiting offsets will strengthen the demand for clean energy innovation, which in turn provides more good jobs for Californians. - Any offsets allowed should at most represent only a small portion of a polluter's required emission reductions. They should have stringent protocols ensuring that the reductions are quantifiable, new, permanent, subject to independent third-party verification, enforceable by CARB, and only located in California. - Offsets from sinks, such as planting trees or avoiding tree cut-downs, should not be allowed, since they are too difficult to measure and often under-perform. |
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Date and Time Comment Was Submitted | 2008-11-19 11:43:31 |
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