Re “Elected leaders’ warnings about climate crisis not reflected in their actions” (July 11): As a professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I thank you for drawi…
): As a professor of geosciences at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, I thank you for drawing attention to the gap between climate rhetoric and climate action . As you note, “buy American” rules have slowed climate action. The urgent need at present is to place the clean energy revolution on an emergency footing, with temporary waivers of the ”buy American” rules. We have no time to lose.
One action our leaders can take now is collecting information on the amount of carbon pollution, in both the United States and our major trading partners, from the production of metals, cement, plastics and other highly polluting materials. If, as expected, the data shows that producing these materials is cleaner in America, it could lead to moving manufacturing back to the U.S. and an increase in high-paying jobs for American workers with a simultaneous decrease in carbon pollution.
I urge my Congress member, Rep. Sara Jacobs, to join Reps. Scott Peters, D-San Diego, John Curtis, R-Utah, and 19 other Democrats and Republicans in co-sponsoring the PROVE-IT Act, which directs the government to compile the carbon pollution data.Ka’anapali resort on West Maui makes a comebackPadres notes: Luis Arraez to sit out All-Star game; Joe Musgrove, Fernando Tatis Jr.
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