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 City State Input File
Eric Wheeler Concerned citizen Pittsfield Massachusetts
This should be done now to avoid higher climate costs in the future.
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Gloria Marshall Home owner Camden New Jersey
Camden County Municpal Authority in Camden, New Jersey turns waste water into sludge. CCMUA assured residents that the sludge would be turned into petroleum. Biofuel is much needed to control...
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John MacLeod Maine resident Wells Maine
I’m not going to go on some long winded rant, I’m just going to leave it at this: you can’t snap your fingers and make new technologies just appear. Create incentives for new behavior, not...
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Joseph D'Alessandro None Raymond Maine
Actions that raise the price of gasoline and heating oil is causing Mainers with moderate incomes to not be able to afford heating oil or electricity for heat during Maine's bitter winters....
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Jerry Malczewski Union of Concerned Scientists Lancaster New York
After reviewing many of the comments posted to date was well as the draft framework policy proposal, I offer the following:

1. The predicted climate impacts due to our current trajectory of...
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Andi Bennett N/A Portland Maine
This is a TERRIBLE IDEA. We moved back to Maine from California because of things just like this. You cannot put your foot on someone's head and expect them not to drown while you hold them...
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Greg Bagley Maine resident Ludlow Maine
This transportation and climate initiative is built of false data and will do nothing but rob money from the people of my state of Maine and give it to rich people elsewhere. It will also drive...
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Maxwell Poulin 1993 Sidney Maine
Just look at what CA is going through right now with the astronomical cost of living. Being a rural state that already struggles with the cost of living and livable wages I see nothing but...
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Richard Archer ME Turners falls Massachusetts
I believe you people (climate change activists) are out of your god damn minds!

Stop trying to eliminate fossil fuels! Electric cars will NEVER be a viable option.

STOP taxing (yes a...
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Ken Ashe No affiliation Montville Maine
Since coming to office Gov. Mills has been undermining the best interests of Mainers and has been focused on lining her pockets with deceptive legislation. Gov. Mills is bad for the state of Maine...
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Susan Voinche N/A Limington Maine
This is not OK! And I hadn’t heard anything about it. This should be for the citizens to decide.
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Tania Hassard Taxpaying citizen Pittsfield Maine
Help create affordable cars that the poor can afford to own in order to get to work that aren't gas powered or stop trying to tax them with gas pricing schemes that will cause them to be...
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Stephen Littlefield Republican TOPSHAM Maine
This makes no sense for the people of Maine! It will be an oppressive burden on all the citizens that depend on reasonable prices on goods and the ability to heat their homes They also need be...
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Guinevere Baltazar Brown Maine Oakland Maine
Please don't do anything to raise the price of something as vital to the Maine people as gasoline. We are a rural state and many of us, my husband included, have to commute 20+ minutes to...
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Samuel Johnston Maine citizen and resident Portland Maine
Please do not do this. The people in maine barely can pay for the gas to get to work as it is. Placing a hidden tax on our drivers is one of the worst decisions you could make.
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Christine Pacheco Resident Limerick Maine
I think the governor of Maine needs to think about the implications of joining this initiative. Maine is mostly a rural state and gasoline and heating oil prices are already one of the biggest...
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Gerrard Rudmin Maine taxpayer Dexter Maine
This will just make poor people poorer. It will make life more difficult for everyone, especially for children who live in poor households.
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Charles Williamson private citizen Mechanicsville Virginia
Carbon tax... just another scam.
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Michael Dougherty Maine Taxpayer South Portland Maine
Dear Sir or Ma'am: I am writing to you today to voice my opposition to the Transportation Climate Initiative. My sole income is a small pension. Any kind of direct tax or back door tax to...
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Jasmine Labbe Mainer Alfred Maine
Gas prices are already up to almost 3$ a gallon, but when you go to any other country it is much cheaper. The cost of living is already up high and by increasing gas prices you're stealing...
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