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In its April 2016 proposed SLCP Reduction Strategy, the CA ARB
effectively ignored the single largest methane emission source in
California: enteric emissions from California livestock. No
"reasonably foreseeable compliance responses associated with the
methane reduction measures" were projected concerning potential
enteric emission reductions from California livestock in Appendix
C, pages 4-16/17, Draft EA for Proposed SLCP Reduction Strategy
(April 11, 2016). In the aftermath of the legislative and executive
enactment of SB 1383, this judgment remains unchanged but now also
extends to the California legislature and the Governor of
California. 

Unfortunately, the very real atmospheric/thermodynamic impacts of
past, present, and future enteric methane emissions on the Earth’s
already disrupted climate system are also likely to remain
unchanged. 

Still, we believe that there are reasonable measures that could be
(and should be) enacted to dramatically reduce methane emissions
from this source (as well as other GHG emissions associated with
livestock supply chains in California). We again present these
measures in the pdf file uploaded to CA ARB.

Todd Shuman, Ara Marderosian, and Jan Dietrick