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May 26, 2016

Clerk of the Board
California Air Resources Board
1001 I Street
Sacramento, CA 95814
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(http://www.arb.ca.gov/lispub/comm/bclist.php)

Re: Proposed Short-Lived Climate Pollutant Reduction Strategy and
Draft Environmental Analysis

To Whom It May Concern:

Sequoia ForestKeeper, Wasteful Unreasonable Methane Uprising, Ara
Marderosian, Todd Shuman, and Jan Dietrick submit (in the attached
pdf) the following comments on the Proposed Short-Lived Climate
Pollutant Strategy and accompanying Draft Environmental Analysis
(“Draft EA”) prepared by the California Air Resources Board
(“CARB”). 

While our comments are extensive and substantive, we wish to
emphasize one of our comments in this publicly-viewable message
window:
 
In this recently proposed Short-lived Climate Pollutant (SLCP)
Reduction Strategy, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) has
again 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" are 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). Enteric emissions constitute about 30 percent of
methane emissions in California in a normal year. It is
unconscionable that this atmospheric methane emission source (just
under a billion pounds of methane emission per year in California,
as of 2013) continues to be severely neglected by CARB, when there
are reasonable measures that could be enacted to dramatically
reduce methane emissions from this source.

Sincerely,

Todd Shuman, on behalf of SFK, WUMU, Ara Marderosian, Todd Shuman,
and Jan Dietrick  Camarillo CA 05/26/2016