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Last couple of days to comment on the California Air
Resources Scoping Plan for AB32 Global Warming Plan. - July 31,
2008 .
Take Action on
Global Warming
Dear Global Warming Activist,
This week is your last chance to
meet the Friday, August 1 deadline to tell the California Air Resources Board
(CARB) how you want them to strengthen
their draft plan for implementing AB 32, the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006. There?s an easy way to do it. Just click on http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/spcomment.htm,
and follow instructions. Keep reading for suggestion comment points.
For Loma Prieta Zero Waste Committee members & other
Zero Waste Activists, California's "Renewable Energy Standards do
not "exclude" burning mixed garbage as renewable energy. The Sierra Club
2006 Policy does not support Waste-to-Energy (WtE) because air pollution, e.g.,
dioxins, no net energy creation and the damage to recycling infrastructure when
local governments are locked into long term supply contracts making the
materials not available for recycling. The current CARB scoping plan does
not define what would be in California's Renewable Energy Portfolio or
Standards. So if you care about this problem for recycling then you
may want to go to the CARB site and tell them your concerns.
The current CARB report also advocates for making landfills sources of
methane for energy generation. The Club is in the middle of developing a
new policy on this that will demonstrate the case that trying to maximize
methane generation from landfills in sufficient concentrations to become viable
as an energy source will increase the amount of fugitive
releases* of methane and volatile organic compounds that attach
themselves to methane resulting in increasing methane in the atmosphere.
Methane is 25 times more damaging the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. It
is harder to comment publicly on LFGTE since the policy is in pre-draft
from. My presentation at CARB hearing in Sacramento on July
17th is that if there is any chance that more methane could be released
that Precautionary Principle says do no harm so the Scoping plan should do
more research on this area rather than advocating a change that could be
devastating.
Contact me if you want more information on this complicated issues and
I will send you our LFGTE Report and spreadsheet with gas emissions from
landfills.
Finally, CARB has agreed to really beef up the recycling part of the
scoping plan but it never hurts for agencies to hear this over and over and over
and over...... hint, hint.
* fugitive gas is that which enters the atmosphere rather than in the
engineered gas collection system.
Ann Schneider
Chair, Zero Waste Committee
Sierra Club
-snipped from Cal-Activist listserve (Calif. Nevada Regional
Conservation Committee/Sierra Club Calif.)
From Bill Magavern, Director Sierra Club California
Take Action on
Global Warming
Dear Global Warming Activist,
This week is your last chance to
meet the Friday, August 1 deadline to tell the California Air Resources Board
(CARB) how you want them to strengthen
their draft plan for implementing AB 32, the California Global Warming
Solutions Act of 2006.
There?s an easy way to do it. Just click on http://www.arb.ca.gov/cc/scopingplan/spcomment.htm,
and follow instructions.
While CARB?s Draft Scoping Plan includes a number of strong measures,
including a call for 33% of electricity to be generated by clean, renewable
energy by 2020, the draft needs significant strengthening before it will be up
to meeting the challenge of combating global warming. Here are some suggestions you can make
to CARB:
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Make polluters pay for their emissions
of greenhouse gases, using the resulting revenues to promote clean energy and
aid low-income consumers. Limit sharply and verify any offsets. Do not
link our program to any states with weaker emission standards.
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Include stronger measures to reform
land use planning in ways that reduce vehicle miles traveled.
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Promote and enable Community Choice Electricity Aggregation (CCA),
which lets communities pool their buying power to generate clean power.
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Mandate that auto companies sell hundreds of thousands of
Zero-Emission Vehicles (ZEVs) by 2014, not the feeble proposed level of 7500
ZEVs.
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Put Zero Waste front and center: increase recycling by businesses, mandate
constructing facilities to compost all green waste, and require producers
to take responsibility for the end-of-life disposition of their
products.
Thank you for taking action. Your work will help us move these
critical measures onto CARB's agenda. That will cut back greenhouse gas
pollution faster!
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