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Please sign on the TCI-P with other northeastern states, with emphasis on equity and action. Many good paying jobs will result! Thank you.

I call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.

There is NOTHING else more important than protecting the air that we breathe and the planet on which we reside. Human beings can change, but to do so, we must put aside greed and selfishness, and make solid changes that protect the Earth and all its inhabitants, great and small. In other words, we must EVOLVE. Transportation must change. Fossil fuels are endangering our welfare, our air, and our lands. We need clean cars, we need better public transportation, we need to get dirty automobiles/trucks off the roads, and increase investments in an equitable, cleaner, and more resilient transportation system. The transportation sector accounts for HALF of Virginia’s carbon footprint, making it our largest contributor by far to climate change, thus, here is where we must begin to change. I hope that the human race is smart enough to act on this. This is our future.

As a Ph.D. Physicist I am technically aware of the burdensome cost and technically ineffectiveness of the Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI.)
Virginia should not join the TCI because the people of Virginia can not afford the burdens the TCI would impose.

Transportation emissions are a huge driver of climate change, accounting for nearly half of Virginia’s carbon output, while also emitting toxic air pollution that falls disproportionately on low-income populations and communities of color.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative Program (TCI-P) is a welcome step forward to addressing this major source of pollution, while steering needed investments in a modern, sustainable transportation system.

Funding provided by the TCI-P could help with ongoing efforts to put more electric vehicles on the road in Virginia along with equitably distributed charging infrastructure across the state.

The TCI-P also presents the opportunity to drive investments in a cleaner transportation system in the communities that have suffered the most from vehicle pollution. While the model rule calls for at least 35 percent of TCI proceeds to go toward frontline, impacted communities, here in Virginia I would hope we go above and beyond that benchmark, investing at least half of our TCI revenue in programs and infrastructure that will lower this disproportionate pollution burden.

I hope this important framework moves forward for the good of our climate, our health and our future.

Nourishing the VT Environmental warrants equal support with economic development. The environment and development are two equal blades of the shears with which humans carve the future of Vermont; the future for our water, air, soil, living creatures and humans.

[I/we] call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body."