Submission Number: 8772
Submission ID: 61286
Submission UUID: 95ce40b6-4df1-4665-a7cd-11e96af85ee3

Created: Fri, 06/12/2026 - 14:42
Completed: Fri, 06/12/2026 - 14:43
Changed: Fri, 06/12/2026 - 17:09

Remote IP address: 146.114.194.254
Submitted by: dleu
Language: English

Is draft: No

Flagged: Yes


Submitted Comment
Katie Valenzuela
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment
Response to CARB Concepts for Potential Regulations for Establishing the Carbon Capture, Removals, Utilization, and Storage Program

Dear CARB Staff:

Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments on your draft regulatory concepts for implementing a Carbon Capture, Removals, Utilization, and Storage (CCUS) Program per the direction of SB 905 (2022, Caballero). We write as stakeholders who were engaged in that legislative negotiation, and are continuing to be involved in oversight of CCUS and Direct Air Capture (DAC) projects as they are proposed across California.

Please see attached for our full comments.

Sincerely:

Natalia Ospina
Alma Martinez
Center on Race, Poverty & the Environment

Nayamin Martinez
Central California Environmental Justice Network

Emma Silber
Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles

Victoria Bogdan Tejeda
Center for Biological Diversity

Ilonka Zlatar
Oil and Gas Action Network

Dave Shukla
Long Beach Alliance for Clean Energy

Jesus Alonso
Clean Water Action

Catherine Garoupa
Central Valley Air Quality Coalition

Mercedes Macias
Sierra Club California

Shoshana Wechsler
Sunflower Alliance

Clair Brown
Climate and Society Center, IRLE, UCB

Valerie Ventre-Hutton
350 Bay Area Action

Pauline M Seales
Santa Cruz Climate Action Network

Nick Joslin
Mount Shasta Bioregional Ecology Center

Daniel Chandler
350 Humboldt

Robert M. Gould, MD
San Francisco Bay Physicians for Social Responsibility

Nile Malloy
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Matthew Baker
Planning and Conservation League

Isabel Penman
Food & Water Watch

Alan Weiner
350 Conejo / San Fernando Valley

Gary Hughes
Biofuelwatch

Stephen Rosenblum
Climate Action California

Ector Olivares
Catholic Charities of Stockton

Thomas R. Fox
Center for Environmental Health

Matt Holmes
California Environmental Justice Coalition

Gloria Alonso
Little Manila Rising

Deboah Silvey
Fossil Free California Votes

Liza Tucker
Consumer Watchdog

Jim Lindburg
Friends Committee on Legislation of California

Katharine Harrison
SanDiego350

Thomas Helme
Valley Improvement Projects (VIP)

Gracyna Mohabir
California Environmental Voters

Mariela Ruacho
Leadership Counsel for Justice and Accountability

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