* Stop global warming
* Help create a future where the climate is stable
* Inspire the U.S. and the world with a solution that works
Let the California Air Resources Board and California Legislature know that you support Cap-and-Dividend, where polluters pay, clean energy becomes competitive, and dividends protect the poor and middle-income families from rising energy prices. Learn more
To: Mary Nichols, Chairman, California Air Resources Board
Fabian Núñez, Speaker, California State Assembly
Senator Don Perata, President Pro Tempore, California State Senate
Earth's life-giving climate is our common inheritance. We have the right to pass this inheritance to our children. Global warming - primarily from fossil fuels - is disrupting our climate and causing a public health crisis from its associated air pollution.
We call on the California Air Resources Board and California Legislature to establish a Cap and Dividend system as the way to implement California's Global Warming Solution Act (AB32).
1. Make greenhouse gas polluters pay.
2. Set the price of pollution and the resulting economic incentive so that greenhouse gas emissions return to 1990 levels by 2020 and decline 80% by 2050 - thus meeting levels scientists say is required to stabilize the climate.
3. Pay dividends to California residents on an equal basis to offset the impact of rising energy prices on California families.
Thank you for your consideration.
