11/5/2019 |
Eric |
DeGesero |
Fuel Merchants Association of New Jersey |
Cranford |
New Jersey |
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TCI Draft Framework Comments.pdf |
12/1/2019 |
John |
DeGiacomo |
Taxpayer |
Marlborough |
Massachusetts |
Just another money grab for the hardworking taxpayers of this dysfunctional state. Vote em all OUT !!. Time to leave this state. Just another money grab for the hardworking taxpayers of this dysfunctional state. Vote em all OUT !!. Time to leave this state. |
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12/1/2019 |
John |
DeGiacomo |
Taxpayer |
Marlborough |
Massachusetts |
Just another money grab for the hardworking taxpayers of this dysfunctional state. Vote em all OUT !!. Time to leave this state. Just another money grab for the hardworking taxpayers of this dysfunctional state. Vote em all OUT !!. Time to leave this state. |
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2/22/2020 |
Ronald |
degray |
University of Saint Joseph and Bike Walk Glastonbury board member |
Glastonbury |
Connecticut |
Transportation and climate initiatives are not only interstate issues but also intrastate issues. Therefore efforts need to include multimodal transportation and in particular passenger rail... read more Transportation and climate initiatives are not only interstate issues but also intrastate issues. Therefore efforts need to include multimodal transportation and in particular passenger rail within Connecticut and between New England and Quebec with connections to states west.
Consider the issues of pollution generated as a result of driving out of state. The pollution is not only from automobile/truck exhausts but also from the debris caused by auto/truck braking.
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10/28/2019 |
James |
Deiter |
Deiter Bros. Heating Cooling Energy |
Bethlehem |
Pennsylvania |
I am adamantly opposed to this as it would unfairly burden consumers and business in the State of Pennsylvania who already pay the highest fuel taxes in the Country! I am adamantly opposed to this as it would unfairly burden consumers and business in the State of Pennsylvania who already pay the highest fuel taxes in the Country! |
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9/30/2020 |
Dayne |
Delahoussaye |
Neste |
Houston |
Texas |
Please see attached letter. Please see attached letter. |
2020-09-30 TCI Workshop Comments - Neste.pdf |
2/28/2020 |
Kris |
DeLair |
Empire State Energy Association, Inc. (ESEA) |
Troy |
New York |
See attached. See attached. |
TCI Comments.pdf |
11/3/2019 |
Adair |
DeLamater |
N/A |
Bath |
Maine |
I believe the greatest crisis facing humankind is climate change. All life as we know it is in danger. Every effort must be made to reduce GHG ASAP! Ignorance and greed and fear of change lead... read more I believe the greatest crisis facing humankind is climate change. All life as we know it is in danger. Every effort must be made to reduce GHG ASAP! Ignorance and greed and fear of change lead some to ignore the reality of the climate crisis. Please do all in your power to improve our transportation system. |
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1/26/2020 |
Adair |
DeLamater |
N/A |
Bath |
Maine |
I encourage the development of pollution free energy for public transportation. Locally generated green energy will reduce air pollution, and will be less vulnerable to attacks from those who... read more I encourage the development of pollution free energy for public transportation. Locally generated green energy will reduce air pollution, and will be less vulnerable to attacks from those who would harm our infrastructure. |
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11/14/2019 |
John |
Delaney |
No |
Lynnfield |
Massachusetts |
BS attempt to force us to bow down to climate change religion. No warming in 15 years!
All to reduce temperatures by less than 1 degree!!!!
Why not just get everyone to plant 1 tree... read more BS attempt to force us to bow down to climate change religion. No warming in 15 years!
All to reduce temperatures by less than 1 degree!!!!
Why not just get everyone to plant 1 tree each??? Because you can’t control the planet into submission and control.
Wake up people. BTW what about India and China? What good is it to Control us if the biggest polluters won’t comply? |
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1/23/2020 |
John |
Delaney |
Independent |
Lynnfield |
Massachusetts |
We don’t believe in man made climate change since Climategate. Cherry-picking data and less than 1 degree C. It’s been about power and control. We don’t believe in man made climate change since Climategate. Cherry-picking data and less than 1 degree C. It’s been about power and control. |
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1/11/2020 |
frank |
delfino |
former resident of Massachusetts |
Conway |
South Carolina |
Moved out of Massachusetts in 2014, after having been born, raised and educated in the Bay State. It is disheartening to see the constant money grab by this governor, aided and abetted by a... read more Moved out of Massachusetts in 2014, after having been born, raised and educated in the Bay State. It is disheartening to see the constant money grab by this governor, aided and abetted by a Legislature who seems to care not a whit for the working people of Mass. This money grab of TCI is nothing more than financial insurance to keep the cadre of overpaid state politicos in place. It is only when you finally move away and look at Mass. from afar that you realize that your state government has been systematically breaking the working classes, and ALL classes with the constant siphoning of money to keep the politically connected in place. IT HAS TO END !! Governor Baker originally ran on a fiscally conservative platform but `has turned into a tax happy politician. Governor....YOUR CITIZENS CANNOT PAY ANYMORE !! So glad I moved to South , as I just could not afford to stay in Massachusetts !! KILL THE TCI !! |
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12/1/2019 |
Levon |
Dell |
None |
Dorchester |
Massachusetts |
If climate change is such a threat why did Obama just buy a 12 million dollar house on the water?
Call this what is, A SELF INDULGENT TAX ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.
Work with the money you... read more If climate change is such a threat why did Obama just buy a 12 million dollar house on the water?
Call this what is, A SELF INDULGENT TAX ON THE MIDDLE CLASS.
Work with the money you already suck out of us already.
GREEDY PIGS. |
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11/4/2019 |
Craig |
Della Penna |
Northeast Greenway Solutions |
Northampton |
Massachusetts |
Sustainable Tourism Opportunity
One of the few threads of commonality among the northeast states is their interest, investment, and dependence on tourism. The state of New York is... read more Sustainable Tourism Opportunity
One of the few threads of commonality among the northeast states is their interest, investment, and dependence on tourism. The state of New York is developing a world-class sustainable tourism product called The Empire State Trail where the Governor and his DOT partners are building 400 mile bike and pedestrian trail. All because the Erie Canal Trail brings in over $250 million a year. Every year. More such places are needed.
The longest rail trail in the northeast is contained totally in the small state of Massachusetts. A state with a highly dense population that is either near this trail—or is in a community with a developing rail trail that is connecting directly with this region’s signature trail. The Mass Central Rail Trail (MCRT) is 104 miles from Boston to Northampton.
There is also another long trail terminating in Northampton. The New Haven to Northampton Canal Greenway Trail. 84 miles long. Every few years, there is what is called a Golden Spike Event, a conference about the developing MCRT and the tie-in to the New Haven to Northampton Canal Grenway. In July 2018, that event, GS2018 was held at Northampton. Here’s a link to the conference booklet produced for the event. Here’s a link to all the presentations—town by town from the event.·
This trail is highly marketable to families originating from either Boston or NYC to go for a week’s vacation and then take the train back to their home city. This will be the greenest vacation opportunity imaginable. Attached is an infographic that quantified the usage and $$/ of that one trail.
More details about the MCRT
• Around the same time that NY began to buildout the Empire State Trail, Governor Baker in Mass became a big fan of multi-use trails. He created the Governor’s Trails Team. An internal, inter-agency working group was formed and they’ve done a lot to develop the network here. In fact, the Governor and other top level staff have been in high profile ribbon-cuttings and ground breakings—all over the state.
• This past week another ½ mile opened in Ware under the stewardship of a visionary land trust. East Quabbin Land Trust is both a linear thinking and a rectangular thinking land trust. While saving forests, farms and open space parcels in their service area, they also have acquired and developed over 4 miles of the of MCRT and have renovated 4 former railroad bridges into being safe for families on this trail alignment.
• Another six miles opened in Weston and Wayland two weeks ago.
• The MCRT now has over fifty miles open with over 80 miles in a protected ownership status. This is a tipping point.
• Mass DOT hired a consultant this winter who began a detailed look at the missing gaps from Berlin to the west side of Belchertown where the Norwottuck section of the MCRT terminates at Warren Wright Road.
• The study looked at three primary issues.
1. Who owns the land.
2. What are the physical impediments [like missing bridges and sold-off corridor]
3. What are the work arounds to piece together the missing gaps. This study is about to be released.
• And here is the biggest, high altitude, take-home. Building an end-to-end, community-long, multi-use path like this transforms the place to be greener and more sustainable. It also leads to more sustainable businesses in a community. Local businesses. It has been said that the indicator species of life in a downtown is the number of bikes and pedestrians you see. If you don’t see many, it is because the community is too auto centric and the down won’t prosper. Having the trail there will start to transform the community. It will also become a place where neglected, forlorn, blighted residential properties near the trail become attractive places for millennials to purchase, renovate and launch a renaissance in a neighborhood that probably needs a new breath of interest.
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Erie Canal Infographic.pdf |
10/31/2019 |
Lee |
DeLong |
Revision Solar |
Gorham |
Maine |
Mainers can not afford a 20 cent tax on fuel. We are already heavily taxed in every way. People have fixed incomes, and most people struggle already to pay for home heating oil. This proposed tax... read more Mainers can not afford a 20 cent tax on fuel. We are already heavily taxed in every way. People have fixed incomes, and most people struggle already to pay for home heating oil. This proposed tax does not benefit anyone other then the state of Maine. The citizen will not get any thing from it. No fuel tax! |
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2/26/2020 |
Patricia |
DeLuca |
Dr. (Ms.) |
Nokomis |
Florida |
Everyone has a right to breath clean air Everyone has a right to breath clean air |
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3/3/2020 |
Ida |
DelVecchio |
dna |
Quincy |
Massachusetts |
make corporations who are sliming the environment and sickening people pay to fix up this mess! many of these industries are subsidized by taxpayer dollars. for years they've promoted a... read more make corporations who are sliming the environment and sickening people pay to fix up this mess! many of these industries are subsidized by taxpayer dollars. for years they've promoted a dialogue that puts the onus on the public to control their polluting habits. they have gaslighted the public. now is the time for corporate responsibility to clean up the mess they and politician's created!!!! |
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8/2/2019 |
Chris |
Dempsey |
Our Transportation Future |
Many |
Massachusetts |
Our Transportation Future (OTF) is a coalition of local, state, regional, and national environmental, health, scientific, transportation, and business organizations committed to modernizing... read more Our Transportation Future (OTF) is a coalition of local, state, regional, and national environmental, health, scientific, transportation, and business organizations committed to modernizing transportation across the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region. We are sending the attached letters to the Governors of the TCI states and Mayor Bowser in support of the important work that you are your colleagues are doing at the intersection of transportation and the environment. This letter is signed by 59 organizations from across the TCI states. We ask that you please share this letter electronically with your colleagues who are part of the TCI process, as well as any others who may be interested in reading it. |
Our Transportation Future _ Letter to TCI Governors_7.29.2019.pdf |
2/25/2020 |
Todd |
Dennis |
Resident of Vermont |
Tinmouth |
Vermont |
Hi,
I am a resident of Vermont and I am opposed to the creation of the TCI. I attended a meeting, one of several held around the state, where we were told that this regional... read more Hi,
I am a resident of Vermont and I am opposed to the creation of the TCI. I attended a meeting, one of several held around the state, where we were told that this regional compact was based on another successful regional compact, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). We were lead to believe that RGGI was successful in it's mission and that TCI would be as well by building off these successes. In fact, RGGI has failed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions but instead has created a tax that emitters pay to emit greenhouse gases. Like most corporate taxes these days the tax ends up being pushed onto consumers, while the benefit of the tax is to support home upgrades to reduce energy usage for heating and cooling, the end result is a failure of it's promoted mission. From the presentation given, it was clear that TCI would do a similar thing by taxing those who import gasoline and diesel into the participating states which would then cause the price at the pump to increase. So the tax on the importers would be passed directly onto consumers. While the mission of TCI is commendable, to reduce the impacts of climate change in the transportation sector and to use the funds raised by the tax to support battery powered and other vehicle purchases by consumers to lower the amount of emissions from the transportation sector. This is an important goal to have and to realize. I am not convinced that creating a bureaucracy to increase taxes which may or not be successful in it's goals is the best solution. Are there alternatives to this approach that can have the same effects? A direct tax at the pumps that is designated for the support of transitioning our vehicle choices away from low mpg and high emissions ones? I am asking for a better and more well-thought out solution or an honest approach to the citizens of those states attempting to join this compact. This is a tax that will be directed onto consumers. Can we accomplish the same things with a direct tax on gasoline and diesel that is set aside in a fund to support this work? The gasoline and diesel market in our state is already a mess with prices much higher in the Chittenden County area even after the main owners of gas stations were sued by the state for price-fixing. Can we trust these people to not price fix when they are passing on a tax to us? A region-wide tax at the pump that is protected for its desired use is a much better way to accomplish our goals and doesn't try and pass off the plan as not a tax when it clearly is a direct tax to anyone who drives a vehicle.
Please oppose TCI until the plan is modified to be truthful to consumers and nullifies any possibility that the monopolies that already cheat consumers to do so in the name of minimizing the impacts of climate change. We must shift our transportation sector away from the use of fossil fuels which will not last forever and have negative impacts on our environment, TCI as it was laid out to the public is not the best way to do this. |
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11/3/2019 |
walter |
denton |
none |
nineveh |
New York |
this is nothing more than a tax. to get more money out of the people. this is nothing more than a tax. to get more money out of the people. |
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