TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

Another life-style destroying, burden creating maneuver by Tax Craving Impotents posing as “Love the Earth” champions. These same ingrates mow down trees by the acre to create solar farms. Instead, look at what MIT engineers are doing to remove CO2 from smokestacks. Stay out of my life, my wallet, and my state. Rhode Island has more than enough economic calamities to deal with…see Gina Raimondo!!!!

Please work to provide clean transportation to more people and be a positive influence on making our car clean.

My name is Erica Bartlett, and I live in Portland, Maine. I’m writing in support of the Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) because Maine is in great need of clean transportation options. I’m grateful that Gov. Mills is focusing on climate change, including the issue of pollution from emissions, and that this effort has strong bipartisan support.

I hope that the TCI policy design take the latest science on climate emissions into consideration. I would also ask that the policy addresses issues of equity so that rural, low-income, and/or aging populations are not hurt by this program – rather, they should be helped. We need more rural transit options, including electric cars and buses, but we also need more of those options in urban areas. I look forward to seeing how this initiative evolves, and thanks again to those who are leading this effort.

I would like to thank Gov. Lamont for requesting that CT formally sign on to TCI.
Reducing transportation sector emissions is important to me because of the dire climate situation which is largely driven by transportation C02. The climate crisis is UPON us, here and now, and we are losing time to do everything we can to mitigate the losses to come. It is also important to address social justice, since poor communities bear the brunt of climate problems. We have already lost decades in making the broad and unprecedented changes that are needed. Please do everything you can.
Please choose ***the most aggressive**** greenhouse gas emissions cap.
Any TCI policy should address equity and investment in overburdened and under-served communities as a first and foremost priority.

Emissions from busses and trains are an important source of air pollution in the Northeast and Middle Atlantic states, and also contribute to the warming of the planet. We badly need to eliminate as much of this as possible as soon as possible. I strongly support all efforts to reduce the use of fossil fuels and replace them with clean, renewable energy sources.

Please find attached the ITS-Davis comment on the preliminary design framework. Our apologies for the late submission. Please let us know if we can clarify or add to any part of this submission.

I have attached joint comments on the Transportation and Climate Initiative Draft MOU from U.S. PIRG, Environment America, and their state affiliates in the Northeast/Mid-Atlantic region.

I strongly oppose implementation of the TCI. It is legislation thru regulation. I have no interest or desire to have my taxes or cost of operating my automobile determine or controlled by regional bureaucrats. Any initiative that will result in increasing fuel costs to taxpayers ought to be undertaken directly by local and state elected officials who are ultimately accountable to the voters. Legislators who delegate to regulators or agency bureaucrats do so only to duck personal accountability and assure themselves (in their minds) of plausible deniability when it comes to assessing blame.