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 ascending City State Input File
Bert Kauffman American Psychological Association Oxford Maine
Climate change is the most critical problem facing the planet. All forms of transportation contribute to the problem. We must coalesce around solutions NOW.
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Patrick Kelly American Petroleum Institute Washington District of Columbia
Please see attached.
TCI Comment API.pdf
Bruce Cary American Patriot Limington Maine
This is a tax. I’m not that smart and I know that. This failed to pass in MA years ago, but yet here it is again. Had to come with numbers this time, pass it as a group because that makes it...
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Mordecai-Mark Mac Low American Museum of Natural History Philadelphia Pennsylvania
Reducing pollution from transportation is a key component to reducing Pennsylvania's emissions. Public transit with sufficient frequency and coverage to attract car drivers while continuing...
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Lance Boucher American Lung Association Augusta Maine
The American Lung Association in Maine supports Maine’s involvement in the Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI) as a critical regional effort to reduce the harms of transportation...
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Lance Boucher American Lung Association Augusta Maine
On behalf of the American Lung Association, I am writing to express our support for moving forward with a thoughtful program design that affords the greatest benefits to local community health....
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TCI Submission 110519.pdf
Kenneth Rowe American Legion Loveland Colorado
We need to keep our air clean & climate change under control any bit will help. We don’t want Colorado to be come like some of the big cities around the country.
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Jane Pringle American college of physicians Windham Maine
I live in a state with a large geography and inadequate public transportation systems. We have good progress on developing solar power and wind energy systems. We need to invest in better clean...
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John Horner American Citizen, Human Race, Conscious Living Being Somerville Massachusetts
To disregard the potential dangers of climate change by those with the responsibility and authority to take reasonable precautions to mitigate these dangers is nothing short of a crime against...
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Danny Beckwith American citizen Hinsdale Massachusetts
I do not support this tax. It is ridiculous and climate change is a hoax.
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Joan Caiazzo American citizen Fresh Meadows New York
We need clean air and reduced emissions. Do what’s right for the health of the American people.
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David Manley American Air West Boylston Massachusetts
Any tax increase should be voted on by the full state legislature . People are already strapped paying the bloated taxes in this state while

State employees never adjust the age at which...
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John Donald American jay Maine
Truthfully, I have no idea where you have gotten this idea from, or what you are thinking.

While many of the public transit "solutions" and feel-good methods you propose might...
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andre beausoleil american sanford Maine
no on any increase gas tax you are just making Mainers poorer there is no solid evidence that global warming is man made please do some serious homework and stop funding bias research
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Gary Lavigne American GARDINER Maine
Not good for Maine or the people that live here. It's already hard enough for the working people of maine to make ends meet, this just adds another financial burden for a problem that doesn...
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Richard Buckley American Holbrook Massachusetts
The Transportation Climate Initiative (TCI) proposal is a backdoor attempt to raise the gas tax that consumers will have to pay for at the pump. If you increase the gas tax literally every...
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David Wood American Norwalk Connecticut
The Transportation Climate Initiative has proposed using a cap-and-invest approach to reduce pollution from the transportation sector.This is a carbon pricing approach. While theoretically...
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caiazza-tci-comments-february-2020.pdf
Jim Forrest Al’s Sport Center Lewiston Maine
.13 to .20 sent gas TAX is just a money grab to use for anything but what it was intended. Reports show your budget included money for roads which you neglected to use for that purpose. I guess...
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Malcolm Davis Jr Already Heavily Taxed Citizen Oakfield Maine
The citizens of Maine can not afford this ridiculous new tax on fuel. I demand that Governor Mills and the Democratic majority withdraw from the Transportation and Climate Initiative like three...
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Madeline Chin Alpert Medical School Providence Rhode Island
I support TCI because I want better public transportation options.

I support TCI because transportation is the largest source of carbon emissions in my state and we have to act on climate...
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