?At it's meeting last Wednesday night the 5 member City of Ithaca's Planning
and Development Committee unanimously passed A Resolution In Support Of the
Enactment?Of A Federal Carbon Tax.??
The 5 member committee is made up of Planning Committee members are:? Chair:
Alderperson Mary Tomlan, Vice Chair: Alderperson?Eric Rosario(new), Alderperson
Jennifer Dotson, Alderperson?Svante Myrick(new),Alderperson?Daniel Cogan.
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Several members had carefully read the materials and even done some research on
their own from?links provided. As the IJ article noted there was
some?skepticism especially from new alderperson Rosario but all were strongly
convinced by the compelling arguments and evidence provided by Sylvester
Johnson.
The Resolution was Item 6 and came up at about 10 PM. Sylvester?himself arrived
at 9 from a long and highly successful day in which he did two presentations on
climate change at Cayuga-Onondaga BOCES in Auburn Greenstar workshop on
Prevention & Reversal of Cancer and Heart Disease earlier that evening at
Greenstar for which 18 signed up and at least 15 attended.
Great work all around Sylvester!
At the Auburn presentations Sylvester succeeded in getting his listeners
interested in trying to pass such a resolution in Auburn!!
Coming Up In The Near Future
Wednesday Feb. 6 Ithaca City Common Council.??? 7 PM Council Chambers. With
strong support from?Mayor Peterson and the enthusiastic endorsement from the
Planning Committee, the Resolution has a good chance of being brought before
Council then or if not?at its March 5th meeting?(CC meets the first
Wed?of?every?month.)
Wednesday Feb. 13?Presentation of the Resolution to the Tompkins County
Environmental?Management Council as the first step to a Countywide resolution.
The EMC meets the second Wednesday of every month (except August) from 7:00pm
to 9:00pm at the Ithaca-Tompkins Transit Center, 737 Willow Ave, Ithaca, New
York. All meetings are open to the public.
Sylvester and The Climate?Change Action Group have also begun getting in
contact with other entities in hopes of making?this a nationwide push in the
next year before Cap and Trade becomes entrenched.? One such is ICLEI USA, the
United States chapter of the?International Council On Local Environmental
Initiatives (ICLEI). Another is the U.S. Conference of Mayors of which Ithaca
as a small city is an Associate Member. Others include the Sierra Club whose
chair, Carl Pope is a supporter.
Lester Brown, Earth Policy Institute and PLAN B author is another supporter. We
also hope to get Move-On to take it on.
More to come including an action plan to get the Resolution passed by as many
municipalities as possible.
As noted in the Ithaca Journal article there is much support around the nation
for a carbon tax. The?Carbon Tax Center http://www.carbontax.org/?has an
extensive listing of supporters from many sectors, conservative and liberal.
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