TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

We are already behind on these initiatives and need to get moving on TCI.

Maine has so many rural areas without access to transportation alternatives that will help lower emissions. And we need affordable, incentivized ways to help individually make an impact.

Full steam ahead, we are behind this!

We support strong climate policy. Don't be fooled by false narratives from the fossil fuel industry and other agents of the status quo. We need strong action and we need it now.

Please see the attached comments of the National Consumer Law Center on behalf of our low-income clients, Pennsylvania Utility Law Project on behalf of our low-income clients, Public Citizen and the Public Utility Law Project of New York, advocating for the further inclusion of equity in the TCI MOU and program design.

I am a member of a group of concerned citizens that are developing a plan to reduce carbon emissions generated by building operations in our town. We feel this is an issue we can address to some degree locally. However, to reduce GHG emissions from the transportation sector we need regional efforts such as the TCI. I am fully supportive of the TCI and request that the resulting policy have a price that's high enough to effectively reduce emissions and at the same time protect rural and low/moderate income populations. I am grateful to see bipartisan support for the TCI.

Dear Governor Scott -

I was pleased to see that many northeastern U.S. states including Vermont have signed a memorandum of understanding in regards to setting up a Transportation Climate Initiative marketplace.

As the world heats up, we have been falling further and further behind in reducing our carbon emissions. This, as you know, is definitely true of Vermont.

The new TCI can set a really solid structure to begin addressing carbon pollution in the transportation sector more aggressively, by raising new moneys through the cap and trade approach. This approach has worked well in other energy sectors with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, so there's good reason to think it will work just as well in the transportation sector.

In this era when Vermont has limited ability to raise revenues, collaborating with so many other northeastern states in this approach makes eminent sense. I would like the parameters of the program to be as aggressive as possible so that we can begin making substantive progress reducing carbon in the transportation sector. Whether it be more fully funding electric school buses, or finding money for more electric vehicle charging stations, or incentivizing a hefty increase in purchase of electric vehicles, or other creative and innovative approaches, it's well past the time to really ramp up this type of work.

Thanks so much for your time.

Michael Bosworth

We can not afford an increased tax on our gas and heating oil. Maine is an economically challenged state where most people have to drive a significant distance to go to work or the closest grocery store or department store. Our winters are brutal and we should not be paying even more money to heat our homes.

I do not support this issue as there is no real proof for your claims about global warming and climate change in general. For over 200 years people have been trying to scare others by saying the world is going to end because of climate related issues and it is still here. The Bible tells us how the worls will emd and until I see those things happen the summer and winter and spring time and harvest will continue. I do believe that we should respect our environment but the mining and processing of lithium and other products for batteries used in electric cars and hybrids does much more damage to that environment than does gasoline.

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. The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI) is an important regional effort to maintain progress in the fight for healthy air and a healthy climate, and one that must place community health and climate protection at the forefront.

Please see the attached letter for our full comments on the proposal.

Governor Mills is ruining this state in record pace. Tax, tax, tax is all I hear from her. In all honesty I wish she could be impeached. We already pay an outrageous amount of taxes on gas and diesel. Governor LePage managed to save a huge surplus AND payoff the state's debt without this. #ImpeachMills #Lepage2022