TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Material submitted through the TCI Public Input form from April 2019-February 2021 is viewable here. View input submitted from March 1, 2021 forward here. All material submitted on this page informed the participating jurisdictions in the 2019-2020 TCI regional policy design process. Click on the column headings to sort the submissions. 
First Last Affiliationsort descending City State Input File
Paul Burns Vermonter Montpelier Vermont
I believe that Vermont should join the Transportation and Climate Initiative. Joining TCI is not the only thing we need to do now to address the climate crisis, but it is one important step we...
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Daniel Marion Very Concerned Citizen Cumberland Rhode Island
TCI is a complete sham and is nothing more than another excuse to take more money from the tax payers and control their lives. If you truly want to affect the climate in a positive way spend your...
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Irving Priest Veteran taxpayer Killeen Texas
I left MA when I realized the bloated hackerama would never repeal the income tax to what we the people voted it back down to. If Tall Devil, I mean Charlie wants to slide this into his budget to...
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Douglas Stuart Veterans For Peace, Eliot Church of Newton, United Church of Christ Newton Massachusetts
This initiative is a constructive, cooperative enterprise engaging a mutual concern for our environment. A positive effort in facing up to our

responsibility for our planet's, our...
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Stan Roberts Victim Westminster Massachusetts
The audacity of these swindlers in government. Instead of doing the job that they were elected to find innovative new ways to disguise ways around what we have already voted against.
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David Sawhill VidSaw Innovation, LLC Philadelphia Pennsylvania
It is so important to address climate change. Especially for our children. It is time to stop thinking only for ourselves and for only this present moment. It is truly incomprehensible to me how...
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Elaine Schmerling Village of Ardentown Wilmington Delaware
We need more and better public transportation, to reduce pollution and mitigate climate change. Also, our roads are too crowded already, as population is growing, we need more people to take...
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Laura Bang Villanova University Strafford Pennsylvania
As someone who has always relied on public transportation, I have observed many different public transit systems in the states and cities in which I have resided. Of the TCI members, I have lived...
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Barbara Schelstrate Virginia citizen Arlington Virginia
I am thrilled that my state is one of those supporting the Transportation and Climate Initiative. Let's ensure that Virginia is at the forefront of efforts to combat the worst effects of...
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Alleyn Harned Virginia Clean Cities at JMU Harrisonburg Virginia
TCI could be well served to consider climate implications of a range of currently utilized U.S. transportation fuels and fuel switch solutions, based on Department of Energy, Department of...
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Alleyn Harned Virginia Clean Cities at JMU Harrisonburg Virginia
In a previous submission I had an error where I overstated the impact of the local transportation carbon reduction program in Virginia - 174 thousand tons of CO2e a year is saved in those...
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Homan Wai Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action Falls Church Virginia
Transportation is becoming one of the leading source of carbon emissions. It is essential that we revamp the structure to address the impact it will have in the future. As a physician, I also...
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Samantha Ahdoot Virginia Clinicians for Climate Action Alexandria Virginia
Yesterday I saw a two-year old boy with his third asthma attack in three months. After he failed to improve with treatment in my office I sent him to the Emergency Department, where he was...
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Wyatt Gordon Virginia Conservation Network Richmond Virginia
Virginia Conservation Network is the partnership of 125 groups across the Commonwealth working to protect our natural resources. We have a 50 year history of working for state level policy changes...
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Michael O'Connor Virginia Petroleum & Convenience Marketers Association Richmond Virginia
Virginia Petroleum and Convenience Marketers Association is a statewide trade association formed in 1948 representing the interests of the state’s petroleum and convenience industries. We are...
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TCI MOU comments final.docx
Greg Singleton Virginia resident Springfield Virginia
We need a plan that holds large transportation polluters accountable for the pollution they create and invests in clean transportation solutions including:



More public transit and...
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Eve Schwartz Virginia resident Keswick Virginia
I applaud your work to reduce carbon-emissions by working cooperatively. Carbon emissions do not stop at the border of any particular state, so it is imperative for the states (and DC) to work...
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Julia Candon-Nguyen Virginia Resident Lovettsville Virginia
We need to push the shift to sustainable transportation aggressively. As the cost of this cap is pushed onto consumers, more and more commuters in the area will have to turn to either sustainable...
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Steve Banashek Virginia Resident Alexandria Virginia
The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is an opportunity for Virginia and the Washington, DC metro region to reduce fossil fuel emissions and invest in clean transportation options...
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Douglas Stewart Virginia Sierra Club Fairfax Virginia
Comments are in attached file.
VA Sierra Club comments Framework transportation cap-and-invest.docx

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