To the editor: I grew up in Pasadena within the Nineteen Fifties. At the moment, the smog was so dangerous that we regularly couldn’t see the San Gabriel Mountains. Once we swam on the public pool in the summertime, our lungs would ache from having breathed within the polluted air. After I was in faculty in Claremont within the Nineteen Sixties, our soccer staff was not allowed to apply on days when the smog was heavy.
Quick-forward to at the moment, when, because of California’s strict anti-pollution measures, the mountains can now be seen from Pasadena, and the skies are principally blue quite than grey. This can be a victory for Angelenos and Californians alike. Subsequently, I’m dismayed by the Home’s vote to bar California from mandating a transition to electrical autos by 2035 (“Fate of California’s auto standards will come down to Senate battle,” Might 1).
Our state was given the flexibility to enact clear air requirements which can be harder than federal limits as a result of now we have traditionally had essentially the most polluted air within the nation. And actually, as identified within the article, “Immediately, greater than a dozen states comply with California’s requirements, together with New York, Colorado, Massachusetts, Washington and Oregon.” This could not change. Because of Gov. Gavin Newsom, who’s quoted as saying, “Our autos program helps clear the air for all Californians, and we’ll proceed defending it.” Amen!
Jill Anderson, Pismo Seaside
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To the editor: I’m well-known in Los Angeles as an advocate for public transportation and for my 11 years as an appointed governing official at Metro. Being somebody who “walks the stroll and talks the speak,” I used public transit to get round for greater than 20 years. However in recent times, my medical doctors have recognized me with diminished lung capability, and I now discover it mandatory to make use of a steroid-based inhaler day by day in addition to carry the identical sort of inhaler utilized by asthmatics for emergencies. The rationale, my main care doctor tells me, is my having breathed in exhaust fumes all these years whereas ready at bus stops.
What those that need to get rid of — or at the least weaken — the rules that reduce these exhaust fumes don’t appear to comprehend is that they’re inhaling those self same fumes themselves each time they step exterior. My situation got here whereas California’s Clear Air Act waiver was in impact; I’m terrified to suppose what number of extra will endure the identical situation as I if that waiver had been to be diminished.
Kymberleigh Richards, Van Nuys
