To the editor: No, Administrator Lee Zeldin, the purpose of the Environmental Safety Company is to not make vehicles cheaper or companies extra worthwhile (“Trump’s EPA takes steps to roll back dozens of environmental regulations,” March 12). Relatively, the EPA’s mission is “to guard human well being and surroundings.” We hoped that you’d honor that mission, and your Jewish values, and do all you’ll be able to to safeguard People’ well being, security and futures. Sustaining the planet and life — l’dor v’dor (“From generation to generation” in Hebrew”) — requires nothing much less.
As a substitute, you might be selling the fossil gasoline trade, which has knowingly created the fast-accelerating local weather disaster. You simply introduced “31 historic actions” that may undo a long time of local weather progress and protections. You could have purged scientists and public well being specialists, shut down the environmental justice division and clawed again funds for clear power, vehicles and buses.
Science makes clear that slashing longstanding protections to “unleash” extra extraction and burning of fossil fuels will speed up the cascade towards local weather disaster and threaten the way forward for humanity.
Rabbi Jennie Rosenn, New York
The author is founder and CEO of Dayenu: A Jewish Name to Local weather Motion
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To the editor: The anti-science leaders on the proper are ignoring years of overwhelming scientific proof supporting human-caused local weather change. What they’re saying, in essence, is that for the reason that starting of the commercial revolution people have put billions of tons of varied pollution into the closed greenhouse of the Earth’s ambiance with out it having any influence. Nonsense.
Steven Rice, Thousand Oaks
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To the editor: So our new EPA administrator is proudly asserting eliminating all work to cut back greenhouse gases, exclaiming, “We’re driving a dagger straight into the guts of the local weather change faith …” If he desires to expertise a dagger within the coronary heart, I recommend he come out right here and meet with lots of the former residents of Altadena and Pacific Palisades, whose houses had lasted a century or extra with no drawback, and inform them how humorously mythological local weather change is.
Douglas Inexperienced, Sherman Oaks
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To the editor: Local weather change is studied by many scientists who’ve gathered tons of information to help their declare that world warming is an actual drawback. These of us who combat to unravel local weather change accomplish that on the idea of that science, not on any spiritual perception.
Murray Zichlinsky, Lengthy Seaside
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To the editor: It was a tragic information day to examine cuts to the Nationwide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the EPA. Each businesses had been really formalized in 1970 by Republican President Richard Nixon. Again within the Nineteen Sixties, rivers were catching on fire, air was harmful to breathe and homes had been being constructed on poisonous landfills. Sulfuric acid in rain was killing bushes and fish in lakes and it was dissolving marble buildings. The EPA protects Americans from such risks. The NOAA offers essential details about the oceans, ambiance, coastal areas, hurricanes, tornadoes, atmospheric rivers and local weather change.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
