Oct. 2, 2025 5 AM PT
To the editor: Underlying this text is the Trump administration’s contemptuous dismissal of overwhelming scientific proof on local weather change and its affect on our planet and our personal well being (“Trump administration opens more land for coal mining, offers $625 million to boost coal plants,” 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 step with President Trump’s ignorant rants about local weather change, together with the recent 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 issue with voters. However when pointless deaths and illness attributable to Trump’s insurance policies, particularly these related to our well being, develop into obvious to all, science and reality ought to play a extra essential position within the midterms.
Jack Holtzman, San Diego
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To the editor: Most People don’t notice the price of having elected this specific federal authorities at this second in historical past.
One instance as an example why: After Russia started phasing out fossil gasoline exports to Europe in the beginning of the warfare in Ukraine, Germany was pressured to massively accelerate its solar energy enlargement, which has helped the nation meet its wants and offset prices. Due to utility regulatory seize, we wouldn’t anticipate to see one thing related within the U.S.
Photo voltaic and wind have surpassed value parity with fossil fuels and are cheaper in the vast majority of instances. So, trying to revive coal as an vitality supply is like shopping for a rooster to make an omelette. It is senseless until you’ve reduce your self off from each market on the town and haven’t any different choices.
Pam Brennan, Newport Seashore
