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Dear Chairperson Nichols, 

We at Sierra Club admire your work and consider you an ally. We
are counting on you to improve the ZEV program now being
considered. 

The plan you are considering on March 27 that will eliminate an
average of only 291,000 tons/year by 2017 through its Zero
Emission Vehicle Program. We need more than 200 times that
progress by 2020! The plan also eliminates only a fifth of the
smog-forming emissions from tailpipes that doom thousands of
people to lung disease and death. 

It's time for bolder action and a more effective Zero Emission
Vehicle Program. Only California is allowed to set tougher
tailpipe standards than federal regulations, and other states can
follow, so California must lead the way. The nation needs you now.


Please require automakers to offer 100,000 zero-emission vehicles
for sale in 2012-2014 (less than 2% of the market) to get us
moving in the right direction. That's fewer than 6,000 vehicles
per year from each of the six largest car companies. They can do
it. There's no time to wait. Global warming is destroying the
planet. Air pollution sickens and kills thousands of people each
year. Please support higher numbers of zero-emission vehicles, and
get them on the roads soon. 

Sincerely,