Eric Schmidt, Chairman and CEO
Google Inc.
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

RE: Make California a world leader in dealing with global warming

Dear Assembly Member ,

I urge you to make California a world leader in dealing with global warming by co-authoring AB 32.

Global warming is one of California's greatest and most urgent environmental problems. From diminished snowpack in the Sierra Nevada to rising sea levels, the ominous threats of global warming are cause for immediate action. Since California is the 12th largest source of global warming pollution in the world, immediate action at the state level will have a significant impact on this global problem.

The pathway to addressing the cause of global warming is straightforward—cut the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from automobiles, power plants, and the other major sources in half. According to the California EPA, California can reasonably cut its global warming pollution by 25 percent by 2020 and 75-80 percent by 2050. These are the reduction levels scientists believe are needed to stop global warming.

AB32, the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, would:

1. Place in statute the goal of reducing global warming pollution 25 percent by 2020.

2. Direct and authorize CalEPA to develop regulations tough enough to actually achieve these pollution reduction goals by going after the state's biggest polluters. Today, global warming pollution is totally unregulated at refineries, power plants and other major industries. AB32 would change that, requiring industry and other big polluters to clean up and be part of the solution to global warming.

3. Require that all major sources of global warming pollution begin mandatory reporting of their emissions by 2008 and begin making reductions by 2012.

Please support AB32 and do everything you can to ensure its prompt passage.

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