To the editor: Underlying this text is the Trump administration’s contemptuous dismissal of overwhelming scientific proof on local weather change and its influence on our planet and our personal well being (“Trump administration opens extra land for coal mining, provides $625 million to spice up coal vegetation,” Sept. 29).
Close to the tip of the article, it’s talked about that Environmental Safety Company Administrator Lee Zeldin beforehand mentioned he plans to roll again a 2009 discovering that local weather change harms human well being and the setting. That is in keeping with President Trump’s ignorant rants about local weather change, together with the current United Nations speech by which he referred to as it “the best con job ever perpetrated on the world.”
Local weather change is (sadly) not a high-priority problem with voters. However when pointless deaths and illness brought on by Trump’s insurance policies, particularly these linked to our well being, grow to be obvious to all, science and fact ought to play a extra essential function within the midterms.
Jack Holtzman, San Diego
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To the editor: Most Individuals don’t understand the price of having elected this specific federal authorities at this second in historical past.
One instance for example why: After Russia started phasing out fossil gasoline exports to Europe at the start of the conflict in Ukraine, Germany was pressured to massively speed up its solar energy growth, which has helped the nation meet its wants and offset prices. Due to utility regulatory seize, we wouldn’t anticipate to see one thing comparable within the U.S.
Photo voltaic and wind have surpassed value parity with fossil fuels and are cheaper in the overwhelming majority of cases. So, trying to revive coal as an vitality supply is like shopping for a rooster to make an omelette. It is senseless except you’ve lower your self off from each market on the town and don’t have any different choices.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seashore
