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. 
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Carolyn Weaver Mothers Out Front Bedford Massachusetts
I live in Bedford, MA and am a member of Mothers Out Front, actively working to fight climate change for the future of our children. This measure must set a price high enough to effectively...
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Andrea Lubawy Toyota Motor North America Washington District of Columbia
Alternative fuel vehicles, including hydrogen fuel cell electric vehicles, will play an important role in decreasing transportation CO2 emissions in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic. Ensuring access...
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Pat Rogers Citizens Climate Lobby RIverside Connecticut
Putting a price on carbon has been the main suggestion of many leading economists as a means of reducing carbon emissions. The price should be high enough to have the desired effect of curbing...
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JoAnn Flaum Citizens Climate Lobby Westport Connecticut
I applaud the members of TCI for working together to price carbon on transportation. I believe that global warming is the most important problem to address right now, affecting, as it does, the...
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Elizabeth Gardner Stakeholder Fairfield Connecticut
Thank you for soliciting input and for working together and hard on this super-important issue. Aileen Nowlan at the Environmental Defense Fund can provide up-to-the-minute information on this...
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Adeline Louie The Climate Mobilization Kensington Maryland
Can we look into instituting similar programs on federal, state, or local levels similar to what California is doing?

http://www.baaqmd.gov/~/media/files/communications-and-outreach/...
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P.J. Clark citizen Bridgeport Connecticut
Please design a regional low-carbon transportation policy proposal that would cap and reduce carbon emissions from the combustion of transportation fuels through a cap-and-invest program or other...
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Rich Rosenberry Citizen Holliston Massachusetts
We should have a price high enough to both offset the damage that GHGs cause and undo some of the damage already done. This has to be done equitably, taking into account low income and rural...
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Sarah Simon E2 Boston Massachusetts
We should also look at investment in High speed, regional distance rail (VA to ME). Better GHG emission and energy choice than aviation (under about 1000 mi, ?) and probably easier to electrify....
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Anne Watson Montpelier City Council MONTPELIER Vermont
This seems like a plan that has some potential to make change in Vermont. I hope that it moves forward.



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Dan Whipple taxpayer Wallingford Vermont
I abhor this theft of my livelihood via taxation for the fool's pursuit of Carbon Reduction. First most, carbon dioxide is NOT a pollutant! Anthropogenic climate change is NOT a proven...
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Stewart Schwartz Coalition for Smarter Growth Washington District of Columbia
To reduce emissions from transportation we need a strong focus on the land use/transportation connection. We need to focus growth in cities and towns and in walkable, mixed-use, mixed-income,...
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Anthony Cherolis Transport Hartford / BiCi Co. at the Center for Latino Progress Hartford Connecticut
Modeling greenhouse gas reduction from the adoption of electric vehicles without including in that model the life cycle greenhouse gas emissions due to the production (raw materials, manufacturing...
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Patty Davis Resident of Essex Town Essex Vermont
Copied and gave presentation to Essex Economic Development Committee. They loved my idea of making Saxon Hill Road a Greenway Linear Park as this already pristine, well maintained gravel public...
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Anthony Cherolis Transport Hartford Academy at the Center for Latino Progress Hartford Connecticut
The "Framework for a Draft Regional Policy Proposal" released on Oct 1st does not include natural gas / methane in affected fossil fuels that will be included in the cap-and-invest...
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Adelheid Koepfer Individual Wallingford Connecticut
As a mom, what comes to mind first are the school busses. Please include in the MOU and work towards replacing ALL diesel school busses with electric busses, and support school districts in doing...
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steven levy 350.org, ACLU Marblehead Massachusetts
We have to get the cars off the road. We need bus lanes. We need better public transit. Poor people cannot afford cars. Congestion by autos is taking it's toll on every part of our lives. We...
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John Smith PA Citizen Plymouth Meeting Pennsylvania
Why don't you just skip all of the complication and add a tax directly on the price of gasoline/jet/diesel/nat gas/coal rather than trying to hide the cost that will ultimately be passed on...
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Peter Guder Taxpayer Saugus Massachusetts
Climate models are worthless mathematical constructs riddled with guesswork.



CO2-driven Climate Change is an Assertion / Hypothesis that cannot be proven or dis-proven and is,...
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Melissa Frarine New York taxpayer Queensbury New York
How much is this going to cost? I am not willing to pay more for gas or taxes to pay for this.
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