TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

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't exist in our state.

Please develop a low carbon emissions plan for the transportation industry. Our future survival depends on making these types of changes.
Robert Warrington

Our outdated transportation system is Maine’s largest source of climate pollution—and it doesn’t even meet the needs of Maine people.
Maine people deserve clean, modern, affordable transportation options that deliver economic, health, and climate benefits to local communities.
It makes sense for Maine to work with neighboring states through TCI’s bipartisan, proven policy model.

Please note that I fully support Maine's need to update its transportation system to address the pressing problem of climate change, among other reasons. Our outdated transportation system is Maine’s largest source of climate pollution—and it doesn’t even meet the needs of Maine people.
Maine people deserve clean, modern, affordable transportation options that deliver economic, health, and climate benefits to local communities.
It makes sense for Maine to work with neighboring states through TCI’s bipartisan, proven policy model.

Sincerely,

Catherine Lee

I'm opposed to this as the cost of living in southern Maine is already too high. I can't even afford an apartment. Pretty soon I'll be living under a bridge.....

It makes sense that we join other states and improve our infrastructure to have cleaner transportation. Money raised by the initiative could be used to improve infrastructure such as charging stations and low emission vehicle incentives. Cap and invest!

I'm not an expert on transportation, but I am an environmental scientist, and I am seriously concerned about the world's sluggishness in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. I would like to say that I wholeheartedly support the TCI goal of moving to low-carbon transport! I will preferentially vote for leaders who move forward on this issue

To whom it may concern,

on behalf of the Global CCS Institute I am submitting the report "THE LCFS AND CCS PROTOCOL: AN OVERVIEW FOR POLICYMAKERS AND PROJECT DEVELOPERS" which explains the protocol for carbon capture and storage (CCS) California's Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) was amended with in 2018. The protocol took effect in early 2019 and incentivizes CCS projects that reduce the lifecycle emissions from fuels consumed in California. Recognizing that climate change is a transnational problem, it also incentivizes direct air capture (DAC) projects reducing the stock of CO2 in the atmosphere. According to the International Energy Agency, to meet the Paris Agreement, CCS is expected to deliver 7 percent of cumulative emissions reductions by 2040, which translates into roughly 2000 operating facilities globally. Currently, there are 19 operating, large-scale CCS facilities globally, including in ethanol and hydrogen production, as well as on power production. While the technology is seen as deployment-ready, it has not been widely deployed due to a lack of policy confidence. However, the recently reformed 45Q tax credit and the LCFS CCS protocol are examples of a value on carbon providing policy confidence for CCS deployment. At least two planned facilities announced recently have cited the LCFS CCS protocol as a key enabling policy mechanism.

Thank you for your consideration.

Sincerely,

Lee Beck

Full Disclosure: I am a rail and transit advocate for the Sierra Club - and also a member of the New England Electric Railway Historical Society (aka Seashore Trolley Museum).

As an active member of the Seashore Trolley Museum, my volunteer work constantly reminds me of the long forgotten role of light electric railways in the history of both Maine and New Hampshire. But equally important is that our museum also has examples of the high speed interurbans that i was ale to ride out of Chicago in my youth, and even numerous cars from other parts of the Midwest that i was never able to ride.

The whole pint of this submission is to remind the TCI initiative that the more populated rural and exurban areas of New England had public transportation options before the 1950's when automobile ownership became commonplace. And even into the 1970's, both the conventional railroads and intercity bus lines provided an equally lng forgotten transportation service to rural communities.

As a member of the Sierra Club, our focus must be on finding ways to sharply reduce carbon emissions from the transportation sector, which means in great part finding various means to sharpy reduce the number of private automobiles that are used almost daily for commuting to work and similar purposes.