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Given that Global Warming, being exacerbated by human activity, is
causing record-breaking changes in temperature around the world,
causing droughts, floods, and meltings in places where none are
needed or can be withstood, we seek to curtail it. 

To accomplish this end, we have identified three needs which can
be met shortly, without trouble. 

We need a well-designed cap-and-trade program.

Cap-and-trade puts an absolute limit on pollution from some of
California's largest sources and guarantees the environmental
results we need. CARB should include as many sources as possible
in a cap-and-trade system. We support CARB's preliminary thinking
that 80% of California's global warming pollution would be under a
cap-and-trade system by 2020.

We need an "Indirect Source Rule" (ISR) to control emissions from
development projects.

Whereas developers measure indirect (mostly vehicle and energy
use) pollution from construction and operation of projects and
ensure that equivalent reductions occur so the project's impacts
are limited,  CARB should require California's local air districts
to develop ISRs to control emissions from new developments.

We need a new Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS); a requirement
that a percentage of all energy sold in California be generated
from renewable sources (solar, wind, biomass, etc). California's
current RPS target is 10% by 2010. We support CARB's preliminary
recommendation that the state immediately adopt a 33% RPS by
2020.