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Dear Governor Newsom and Members of the California Air Resources
Board (CARB), As a California resident, I am writing to urge you to
stop using taxpayer dollars to fund factory farm biogas projects,
which threaten the well-being of animals, people, and the planet.
Funding biogas production under the Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS)
incentivizes the consolidation and growth of the notoriously
harmful factory farming industry. Every year, this industry forces
billions of animals to suffer in unimaginably cruel conditions. It
generates air, water, and methane pollution that entrench fossil
fuel interests and accelerate the climate crisis. And it increases
rates of high blood pressure, respiratory conditions, and
waterborne illnesses for local communities. To begin addressing
these substantial harms, I implore you to implement the following
reforms to the LCFS: 1. Eliminate "avoided methane crediting" in
2024. 2. Address inaccuracies in the Life Cycle Assessment that
ignore associated up and downstream greenhouse gas emissions from
factory farm gas production. 3. Remove the 10-year "grace period"
for factory farm gas producers. 4. Stop double counting by allowing
factory farm gas projects paid for and claimed by other programs to
sell LCFS credits as well. The future of our communities and shared
environment is in your hands. Please reform LCFS to create a safer,
healthier home for all Californians. Thank you for your time and
consideration. 
California is greenwashing factory farming.

California has more industrial dairies than any other state,
polluting our rivers, depleting our groundwater, and emitting
disastrous greenhouse gasses. Now, factory farm polluters claim
they are environmentally friendly because they produce "biogas."
Even worse, they are using our tax dollars to fund this harmful
greenwashing.

California regulators stop investing in factory farm gas! 

Biogas is unsustainable and unnecessary--it does not reduce the
dairy industry's environmental footprint. In fact, investing in
biogas helps maintain and expand factory farms. Investing in biogas
means investing in even more factory farm pollution.

This year, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has the
opportunity to adopt new rules that would stop rewarding factory
farms for their pollution.