To the editor: No, Administrator Lee Zeldin, the purpose of the Environmental Safety Company is to not make automobiles cheaper or companies extra worthwhile (“Trump’s EPA takes steps to roll back dozens of environmental regulations,” March 12). Fairly, the EPA’s mission is “to guard human well being and atmosphere.” 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 an alternative, you’re selling the fossil gasoline business, which has knowingly created the fast-accelerating local weather disaster. You simply introduced “31 historic actions” that can undo many years of local weather progress and protections. You might have purged scientists and public well being specialists, shut down the environmental justice division and clawed again funds for clear vitality, automobiles 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 precise 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 economic revolution people have put billions of tons of assorted 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 saying 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 struggle to resolve local weather change achieve this on the premise 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 companies had been truly 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 supplies essential details about the oceans, ambiance, coastal areas, hurricanes, tornadoes, atmospheric rivers and local weather change.
Phil Beauchamp, Chino Hills
