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Dear California Air Resources Board,

Your proposed amendments to California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard
are a climate policy failure that backslides on 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.  

Governor Newsom's 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 is wrong 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 clear and urgent goal to protect
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 instead of electric vehicles powered
by clean energy hampers efforts to fight the climate crisis while
enriching oil companies and industrial agriculture. 

I urge you to correct your course and modernize the program by
eliminating support for combustion altogether. 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, deliver major benefits for California's air quality
and support cash-strapped transit agencies that low-income
Californians depend on. 

California cannot meet its 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 now to reform the program in order to achieve
our state's ambitious goals.

Sincerely,
Hannah Mitchell
2633 7th Ave  Sacramento, CA 95818-3901