TCI Regional Policy Design Stakeholder Submissions

I am so glad that we finally have a governor who recognizes the need for all of us to act on climate change. Now we need to act nationally.

This proposal will increase taxes without improving transportation systems and options in the region, or without improving the region’s air quality. This plan will increase taxes and move funds to government-chosen industries that will not help the residents of the region.

Call it by any name and scheme you devise, I do NOT support this backdoor tax. It will be extremely difficult on Maine's already heavily burdened citizens- especially those living on fixed incomes on rural parts of the state. Maine already has very high energy costs, which are an incentive to alternatives.

This is complete bullshit and you know it. You are fucken the people of the State of Maine!

I have lived in Maryland most of my life. Over the years I have been proud of steps the state has taken to address issues promoting the common good, especially when the issues are complicated. Today climate change is clearly one of those issues. It is a situation where working with other states makes total sense. What an opportunity for Maryland to be ahead of the curve, joining 11 others and DC to make a difference. For this reason I am a strong supporter of the The Transportation and Climate Initiative (TCI). This is a once in a generation opportunity to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and raise much needed revenue to modernize our transportation system on a regional scale.

As a Marylander, I thank Governor Hogan for his leadership in supporting TCI and request that Maryland formally join the program. I want the leaders of the TCI to choose the most aggressive greenhouse gas reduction targets- as current scientific studies show that we need.

I also urge that the policy prioritize clean investments in all of Maryland's communities overburdened by pollution and for those who do not have access to transportation choices.

Thank you for considering this option.

Sincerely,
Joanne Schwarz

I strongly support the Transportation and Climate Initiative. The transportation sector accounts for a third of all carbon emissions so we must make changes to this sector to avert the worst of the climate crisis. We need a plan that holds large transportation polluters accountable for the pollution they create and invests in clean transportation solutions including:

- More public transit and electric vehicle infrastructure in rural areas,
- Expansion of commuter rail, electric vehicles, and streets in the suburbs that are safe, walkable, and bikeable,
- Sustainable and equitable housing near transit and electric bus fleets in urban communities.

I support TCI because, as an asthmatic, I find it important to reduce tailpipe emissions, which contribute to asthma and other health problems. In addition, I feel that it is important to reduce emissions of greenhouse emissions from all sources, including the important transportation sector, to mitigate climate change.

Non-Profits, NGO’s, Trusts, & Foundations use “philanthropy” to secure political clout through campaign donations, & public policy through advocacy groups like the Conservation Law Foundation, the Nature Conservancy, and VPIRG, who receive significant support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. TCI’s core funding comes from the same Rockefeller philanthropy, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, which is directly behind TCI, RGGI, in fact all the anti-carbon policy we are seeing in Vermont. The Manufactured Climate Crisis, the War on Fossil Fuels, the Climate Change Agenda, & the Monetization of Carbon are driven by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the Rockefeller Family Fund, and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. Wealthy Elites have pre-positioned their investments in carbon trading, carbon sequestration, railroads, & natural gas, while betting against coal & oil. TCI is the unconstitutional picking of winners & losers, inefficient Government Redistribution of Wealth, and Economic Death for the Working People of Vermont. Instead, we need to clear out the leeches who hold public office for self- emolument, & tax these “philanthropic” Foundations, Trusts, NGO's, & Non-Profits into the stone age, instead of adopting a punitive Interstate program designed to force compliance with standards that will have a dubious effect on the Earth's Climate on a Global Scale.