California Air Resources Board

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) has proposed rules that allow corporate factory farm dairy and hog operations (anywhere in the country) to sell the methane created in their operations into this system as a supposedly "carbon negative" fuel. METHANE IS NOT CARBON NEGATIVE?!?!?

The current CARB counter-intuitive proposal:
- Commoditizes methane production, legislating publicly-funded (taxpayer dollars through government subsidies) support for gas-polluting practices to grow.
- Incentivizes the expansion of confined animal feeding operations.
- Institutionalizes corporate consolidation in the U.S. livestock industry, out-competing and impeding family farmers.
- Continues the overproduction of remote commodities, flooding the market and pushing down prices that would otherwise be invested into local, independent family farms, rural communities, and more effective and palpable responses to climate change.
- Pays foreign multinational meatpackers, like Chinese-owned Smithfield and Brazilian-owned JBS, for their pollution.

Your board knows exactly what they are doing and WE SEE YOU FOR WHAT YOU ARE. Carbon trading has NEVER been a viable solution and only proves "logical" when theoretical economics is the only consideration, leaving out "externalities". In practice, these theories about the economy are proven OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN TO FAIL.

I am sick of your empty words and broken policy and I am sick of corporations seemingly pulling one over the eyes of misguided and oftentimes ignorant "boards of professionals". It's obnoxious and embarrassing.

Aloha