To the editor: How ironic that these two articles seem facet by facet. The primary is a part of President Trump’s killing of clean-energy initiatives and rising use of fossil fuels (“Trump administration paying French firm $1 billion to drop U.S. offshore wind leases,” March 23). The second is in regards to the rising use of unpolluted vitality in Europe (“European consumers seek out solar, EVs as energy prices surge,” March 24).
Trump just lately reversed the scientifically based mostly discovering that greenhouse gases threaten public well being, aiming to take away the authorized foundation for federal local weather laws. That is according to Trump calling local weather change a “hoax.”
Whereas local weather change just isn’t anticipated to play a significant position within the upcoming midterms, Trump’s basic perspective of mocking information 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 Celebration that believed in capitalism and free enterprise, and that the federal government mustn’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 mandatory authorized hurdles, together with nationwide safety evaluations.
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 spend money on his most well-liked pure fuel. I’m certain the correspondence from the administration to TotalEnergies had the tone of, “That’s a pleasant little wind farm you’ve there. It might be a disgrace if one thing occurred to it.”
So China and the remainder of the world proceed to develop clear vitality. America continues to spend money on a nineteenth century sample of frequently burning fossil fuels, and persevering with drilling and mining for stuff to burn.
Sanford Krasner, Altadena
