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This must be supported for it is our responsibility to undo the damage done to the atmosphere for our families future and for the future of many species.This is one important step to be followed by much else, and we must not be sidetracked by big business which has much to do in creating the problem. Clean transportation is essential for a sustainable economic survival !

I am writing to you as a co-founder of Faith Alliance for Climate Solutions (FACS). Our organization started in a church basement in Oakton, Virginia seven years ago. Today, we have close to 3,000 supporters drawn from nearly 100 congregations, temples, and mosques throughout Northern Virginia. No matter our faith traditions, FACS activists believe that addressing climate change is an urgent moral responsibility.
We know that transportation is one of the biggest sources of greenhouse gas (GhG) pollution in Virginia and the region. Dangerous particulates that cause health problems like asthma flow from gasoline and diesel. Particulate pollution especially impacts those near major roads, which often include lower income and minority communities.
We need to move to a clean transportation system and a clean-energy economy.
FACS strongly supports a muscular TCI-P Model Rule that both ensures meaningful climate action to address Virginia's GhG pollution from the transportation sector, directs significant investments to correcting historic inequities in overburdened and underserved communities; and affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system.
TCI-P will greatly help Virginia and the region improve air quality, lower health care costs, reduce GhG pollution, and generate revenue for other environmental initiatives to further accelerate our progress.
For these reasons, we urge the adoption of a strong TCI-P Model Rule and urge you to act for the benefit of all generations.
Scott Peterson

transportation is the biggest source of greenhouse gas emissions in Virginia and the region, as well as dangerous particulates that cause health problems like asthma.
• particulate emissions especially impact those near major roads, which often include lower-income and minority communities.
• to solve these problems we need to move to a clean transportation system, and a clean-energy economy.
• TCI-P will greatly help Virginia and the region do this – it will improve air quality, lower health care costs, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and generate revenue for other environmental initiatives to further accelerate our progress.

For a decade, the UU Congregation of Fairfax has acted to address climate change and environmental injustice. We believe that climate change is the moral, ethical and spiritual challenge of our age that must be confronted -- not only for the health and welfare of ourselves, our children and grandchildren, but also for the whole interconnected web of life that is threatened by humanity's burning of fossil fuels. Transportation accounts for a huge proportion of greenhouse gases. To sharply curtail this pollution that is forcing climate chaos already, governments must act to disincentivize carbon pollution and incentivize alternative, non-polluting transportation.

Consequently, I strongly urge Virginia's adoption of the TCl. It will reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector in Mid-Atlantic and New England states, and the TCI-P will establish a “cap-and-invest” program. TCI-P will decrease air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, improve public health, and generate substantial revenues to promote environmental justice and enable swifter progress toward a clean-energy economy. I understand that there may be small increases in gasoline prices. Those small increases will be more than offset by the benefits of the TCI-P in moving the commonwealth off fossil fuels and into a non-polluting economy.

The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) aims to reduce carbon emissions in the transportation sector by establishing a "cap and invest program to decrease air pollutions and generate revenues toward a clean economy. Transportation is the biggest source of gas emissions in Virginia and has the greatest impact on poor and minority communities.
Acting now will improve our air quality, lower health care costs, reduce gas emissions and generate revenue for environmental initiatives.
John A. "Jack" Calhoun, co-leaders, Lewinsville Faith in Action

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.

This is very important and necessary for a clean and equitable future!

This is a wonderful idea and I hope a serious, effective program will be enacted. I hope the program managers use lessons learned from other similar “cap and trade” programs, which involve emissions allowances, in order to create an effective system that reduces emissions quickly and equitably. I also hope the program discourages the use of carbon offsets in which participants take credit for emissions reductions while actually not reducing emissions.

I hope the TCI-P Model Rule includes (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.

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-than-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.

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.