To the editor: I grew up in Pasadena within the 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. Once I was in faculty in Claremont within the Sixties, our soccer group was not allowed to observe on days when the smog was heavy.
Quick-forward to at this time, when, resulting from California’s strict anti-pollution measures, the mountains can now be seen from Pasadena, and the skies are largely blue fairly than grey. It is 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,” Could 1).
Our state was given the flexibility to enact clear air requirements which are harder than federal limits as a result of now we have traditionally had probably the most polluted air within the nation. And actually, as identified within the article, “At this time, 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 discuss,” I used public transit to get round for greater than twenty years. However lately, my medical doctors have identified me with diminished lung capability, and I now discover it needed to make use of a steroid-based inhaler each day in addition to carry the identical kind 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 remove — or a minimum of weaken — the rules that reduce these exhaust fumes don’t appear to understand 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 assume what number of extra will undergo the identical situation as I if that waiver had been to be diminished.
Kymberleigh Richards, Van Nuys
