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Very important to invest in cleaner, more equitable and resilient transportation system NOW.

I strongly support the TCI-P Model Rule as an essential next step on the road to decarbonization.
A 2018 report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) confirms that meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5-degree target will require cutting GHG emissions roughly in half by 2030, and achieving net zero emissions by 2050. Achieving these reductions will be challenging. A recent forecast from the United Nations' World Meteorological Organization finds "a 20% chance that global temperatures will be 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit) higher than the pre-industrial average in at least one year between 2020 and 2024."
We simply no longer have the luxury of time. I respectfully encourage adoption of the TCI-P Model Rule now to ensure durable, sustained, and necessary reductions in GHG pollution. Thank you.

I strongly support the TCI-P for Virginia. I particularly support it in view of the fact that the Biden administration is now working to update transportation and other infrastructure with an intent to mitigate Climate Change. We are in the midst of a crucial paradigm shift and the stronger the partnership working through that change, the better. Virginia needs a TCI-P Model Rule to make sure that overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive an appropriate share of investments from the program.

It is crucial thar VA take every opportunity to make the transition away from fossil fuels to an economy driven by clean, renewable energy, including, most importantly, in non-polluting transportation.

I support a strong TCI-P Model Rule that (1) ensures meaningful climate action to address Virginia's largest driver of our climate crisis, (2) directs significant investments to correcting historic inequities in overburdened and underserved communities; and (3) affords Virginia the opportunity for a cleaner, healthier transportation system.

I also call for the TCI-P Model Rule to include (1) a minimum investment amount to ensure overburdened and underserved communities in Virginia receive a greater-then-proportional share of investments from the program, (2) integration of air quality commitments across Virginia, and (3) robust empowerment of Virginia's Equity Advisory Body.

We are at a crossroads in the climate crisis. One way ensures that the world will become a much more difficult place for our children and grandchildren to live in, if we continue spewing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere. The other way gives us a chance to change the direction that our world is heading towards. How many creatures have to become extinct before we address greenhouse gases? How many ocean-front properties have to be sacrificed to rising seas? How will countries deal with millions of people migrating to neighboring countries that don't want them?

Time is quickly running out. We need to act NOW. We need to adopt the TCI-P Model Rule now to ensure durable, sustained, and necessary reductions in GHG pollution.

“The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.” Dante Alighieri. We are at that moral crisis now. What will you do?

Investing in clean energy would not only be good for our environment and preserving our local nature tourism industry but it will help create jobs for the future, not jobs destined for the dust bin. Please do not cave in to the monied interests of the fossil-fuel lobbyists who do not care about local economies, just their own personal profits.