TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

I support the Obama era, or stricter, clean car standards. Climate change deniers must not be allowed to weaken vehicle efficiency standards. We already are suffering the consequences of climate change. Our leaders must take advantage of every means to halt and reverse the upward trend in global temperatures and to lessen the effects of the changing climate.

I'm just adding my support for taking sensible measures to improve overall transportation and reduction of emissions.

If prosperous countries like Switzerland and Norway can do it, we can do it too! We have the population density on the East Coast to make it economically feasible.

I just think it's very important that we reduce greenhouse gas emissions as much as possible. I'm 20 years old today, and the thought of the world I'll have to raise my children in terrifies me. It's something I find myself thinking about more frequently with each passing year. We need to do something and we need to do it now. And we need to ensure that we prioritize the distribution of those resources to the folks most impacted by a changing climate. I'd love to see Pennsylvania formally be a part of the TCI. I hope it isn't too late, and I believe in my heart that it isn't.

As a Boston commuter with asthma, I frequently must use medication to control my asthma brought on by air pollution walking to and from work. Reducing carbon pollution also reduces particulate and noxious gasses from transportation. I hope Massachusetts will join the plan to reduce transportation carbon emissions.

I support a strong plan to combat GHG emissions from transportation, and I want to see New York State formally join such a plan. I support TCI's stated goal of prioritizing clean investments in areas overburdened by pollution and/or for those who don't have access. As a voter, I also value the bipartisan nature of this project.

Transportation pollution is the region and the nation's single largest source of carbon pollution, which threatens the long-term security of every community from the neighborhood scale all the way to the planetary scale. Transportation pollution also constitutes an immediate public health hazard in the form of particulate air pollution. I request that Massachusetts formally join this initiative to develop a clear and aggressive plan to reduce transportation emissions.

Furthermore I ask that the initiative's policies advance social and health equity by prioritizing clean transportation investments in communities that are overburdened by pollution and/or don't have access to clean transportation options.

At a time when America's federal government is incapable of addressing the nation's problems, including transportation pollution and equity, I am grateful that the leadership of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states is taking bipartisan, common-sense action to demonstrate transportation and climate leadership where the federal government cannot. I and your other constituents are putting our faith in you to find just means of addressing this existential threat to the future of our region, our nation, and our planet.

Research has shown that the transportation sector is our largest source of global warming emissions, both regionally and nationally. We need to address them.

Pennsylvania should formally join the plan to reduce emissions. Policies should be equitable by prioritizing clean investments in areas already overburdened by pollution. I appreciate the bipartisan nature of this project and think it's great that states can do something, despite current federal policies that are going in the wrong direction.