To the editor: How ironic that these two articles seem aspect by aspect. The primary is a part of President Trump’s killing of clean-energy initiatives and growing use of fossil fuels (“Trump administration paying French agency $1 billion to drop U.S. offshore wind leases,” March 23). The second is concerning the rising use of unpolluted vitality in Europe (“European customers search out photo voltaic, EVs as vitality costs surge,” March 24).
Trump lately reversed the scientifically primarily based discovering that greenhouse gases threaten public well being, aiming to take away the authorized foundation for federal local weather rules. That is per Trump calling local weather change a “hoax.”
Whereas local weather change isn’t anticipated to play a significant function within the upcoming midterms, Trump’s common angle of mocking details on essential points ought to persuade voters to take away sycophantic Republicans within the midterms to place a examine on Trump’s different egregious actions.
Jack Holtzman, San Diego
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To the editor: What occurred to the Republican Get together that believed in capitalism and free enterprise, and that the federal government shouldn’t select winners and losers? TotalEnergies acknowledged the approaching way forward for renewables. Its leaders made a enterprise determination to bid on an offshore lease and develop the wind farm. They cleared all the required authorized hurdles, together with nationwide safety critiques.
Nonetheless smarting from his 2012 defeat over the wind generators close to his Scotland golf course, Trump had this wind farm, and a number of other others, in his sights. When the courts determined that he couldn’t reverse authorized agreements, Trump determined to make use of our tax {dollars} to purchase out the wind farm lease and persuade TotalEnergies to put money into his most popular pure gasoline. I’m certain the correspondence from the administration to TotalEnergies had the tone of, “That’s a pleasant little wind farm you’ve got there. It will be a disgrace if one thing occurred to it.”
So China and the remainder of the world proceed to develop clear vitality. The US continues to put money into a nineteenth century sample of frequently burning fossil fuels, and persevering with drilling and mining for stuff to burn.
Sanford Krasner, Altadena
