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 Affiliation Citysort descending State Input File
Blake Cady Climate Action Brookline (CAB) Brookline Massachusetts
Eventually, all transportation must be electrified. A carbon fee and dividend is the most useful method, at

present, to drive this process. Electric cars and busses can be subsidized in by...
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Eva Kaso-Collette Wentworth Institute of Technology Brookline Massachusetts
Dear Gov. Baker, Board, and to Everyone,

I am thrilled that you are taking steps to reduce climate change! The transportation sector plays a large role in CO2 emissions and greening it up...
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Peter Nielsen Starry LLC Brookline Massachusetts
The initiative as presented is simply a new tax without useful or demonstrable destination for the revenue created. By exempting jet fuel the initiative ignores a vastly more unnecessary and...
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Blake Cady MD Harvard Medical School Brookline Massachusetts
40% of green-house gases now come from the transportation sector. We must get control of this by cooperative efforts, especially

multi-state plans, such as TCI.
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Kathleen Vieweg Union of Concerned Scientists Brookline Massachusetts
I am strongly in favor of the Transportation and Climate Initiative. The transportation in the Boston, MA area is frightful. We have too many cars on the road, a failing subway system, buses...
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Jill McKinney None Brookline Massachusetts
Renewal is vital. Without it we are looking more ad more like a banana republic. It's not just clean transportation, it is efficient, modern transportation we want. If other first world...
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Isaiah Plovnick Mr. Brookline Massachusetts
Every line on the MBTA needs to be green. The Commuter Rail too. That's where the money should be going. Zero emissions by 2025.
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Isaiah Plovnick Mr Brookline Massachusetts
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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Tom Clynes Citizen BROOKLINE Vermont
I'm writing to urge the Governor to join TCI. Whether or not Vermont joins TCI, Vermonters are going to pay at least some of its costs. If Vermont joins TCI, the State will receive more...
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Janet Kolodner Boston College Brookline Massachusetts
I urge you to do everything within your power to participate in TCI's initiative to design a low-carbon transportation policy for the northeast that will truly have substantial impact on...
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Don Hnatowich none Brookline MA Massachusetts
I could cry that 40 years ago we had bipartisan desire to do something on the climate, until the fossil fuel industry threw money at disinformation. There can be no bigger crime. Why are they not...
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Don Hnatowich retired Brookline MA Massachusetts
I could cry that 40 years ago we had bipartisan desire to do something on the climate, until the fossil fuel industry threw money at disinformation. There can be no bigger crime. Why are they not...
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Hilary Young Etsy, Inc. Brooklyn New York
Please see attached file for Etsy's comments. read more
Etsy_CommentsRegardingTCI_11.05.2019.pdf
Nikhil Shimpi Ratepayer (New York City) Brooklyn New York
The initiative should be implemented on a multi-state basis while emphasizing principles of justice and funding for a decarbonized transit future. As such, any money raised through fees or taxes...
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Summer Sandoval UPROSE Brooklyn New York
Climate Justice Alliance_ Public Comment on TCI Draft Framework_11.22.19.pdf
Benjamin Mandel CALSTART Brooklyn New York
Following the release on October 1 of the Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal, and ahead of the release of a multi-state draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) to advance the policy...
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TCI Policy Framework_Coalition Support Letter_December2019.pdf
Kenneth Lay Citizen Brooklyn New York
I am fully in support of this initiative. As a young person, I am horrified at how little is being done to address the dire impacts of climate change which will so markedly impact our future. The...
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Stephanie Doba Volunteer with Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign Brooklyn New York
The key to wider adoption of electric vehicles is building out a robust fast-charging infrastructure. Until consumers see DC fast-charging stations as a practical alternative to gas stations, they...
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George Carter FIAR Brooklyn New York
Global heating is literally an existential crisis. We need to be addressing it comprehensively and this is a vital piece of that effort.

Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) states...
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Eva Melas Concerned resident Brooklyn New York
It’s way past due!
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