A pipeline for fossil fuel interests, not ours
Purchase, N.Y.: Re “The world must cut damaging methane” (op-ed, Sept. 21): Methane is killing us and our planet. While New York may not have an official place on the world stage, the state must still be a climate leader. As the U.S. denies climate change, it’s up to states to stand up as they are for health policy. Only now, Gov. Hochul seems to be willing to go backwards on climate policy.
The draft State Energy Plan calls for continued methane pollution by slowing implementation of the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Law. In particular, it leaves out the Cap-and-Invest plan necessary to produce revenue to invest in new clean energy projects.
Hochul supports the President Trump-backed and once-rejected Williams fracked gas pipeline that would dig under New York Harbor to the Rockaways, releasing industrial toxins and leaving us the gas infrastructure legacy that will last and cost us for decades while spurring methane emissions. Probably with Hochul’s pressure, the Public Service Commission has greenlit it. Now the pipeline is in the hands of the Department of Environmental Conservation, which previously rejected it based on harm to water quality and marine life. The same facts must lead to the same conclusion.
I’m a great-grandmother, and I believe that everyone’s great-grandchildren deserve a clean and healthy environment. To that end, we must resist continued methane pollution and the Williams pipeline. Anne Sweazey
Rule of reciprocity
Brooklyn: To Voicer Frank Feeley: When the current occupant of the White House starts respecting the office of the presidency, maybe comedians will ease up, but since the orange menace respects no one and nothing but money, that ain’t happening. Carol Katz
Sue him
Kearny, N.J.: Those on the receiving end of Donald Trump’s vile insults, threats and impacts on their livelihoods could do themselves and all of us a huge favor if they took a page from the whiny, thin-skinned punk’s book: James and Maurene Comey, the Vindman brothers, Anthony Fauci, Adam Schiff, Joe and Hunter Biden, Jimmy Kimmel and Stephen Colbert, and the U.S. attorneys, FBI agents, scientists, health officials and other federal employees maligned and fired by Trump and his idiotic henchmen need to bring lawsuits against him personally and ask for multi-billion-dollar judgments like he does. The corrupt Supreme Court ruled that he’s exempt from prosecution for “official acts,” but surely, crude, childish insults and outlandish, out-of-this-world charges don’t rise to that level. Tie him up with so many lawsuits that maybe he’ll have less time and energy to harm our nation, world and environment. Death by a thousand lawsuits! John Woodmaska
Incalculable loss
Oak Ridge, N.J.: 13-year-old Sanjay Samuel is shot while walking to school and died. No outrage from our stupid president, but it would be hollow thoughts and prayers. Well, I’m just a regular guy and I’m outraged by this. Our kids have been getting gunned down for decades. It’s an outrage! Jim Heimbuch
Deep reference
Manhattan: The powerful front-page headline “Double agony for man, 99” (Sept. 26) recalls the fourth stanza of the hymn “Gerontius” by St. John Henry Newman in 1853, and later part of a symphony by the great composer Edward Elgar. The surprising erudition of the Daily News is admirable. George W. Rutler
Process of elimination
Rego Park: Every animal does threat assessment. Friend or foe, trick or treat. Sometimes man will ask “why” or “what.” Why is my dog barking? What does he want? Why did this artist paint this? What does he want me to see? Living in NYC, I’ve distilled my threat assessment to three parts. First, I assume they want money. If it’s not money, I assume it’s sex. If it’s not money and it’s not sex, then I say they’re nuts. Granted, it’s not Immanuel Kant or Bertrand Russell, but it’s a heck of a lot more useful. Jeff Rosenblatt
Stuck on the status quo
Lackawaxen, Pa.: A guy who promoted Rudy Giuliani’s protean politics may not be the best judge of who is the “real Democrat” in the NYC mayoral race (“Vote for real Democrat, not a socialist,” op-ed, Sept. 27). Ken Frydman equivocates by noting that purity — Fiorello LaGuardia is his example — is not an enduring quality in the political arena. A better measure of what a politician stands for may be who benefits from his or her service in public office. If one accepts as generally correct Bill de Blasio’s “tale of two cities” analysis, then why put back in office either of the two candidates who were in charge as inequality was deepening? John A. MacKinnon
Do your homework
Philadelphia: To Voicer Thomas Murawski: You ask why I didn’t point out one example of Charlie Kirk’s racist comments. If you’d embrace the concept of critical thinking while engaging in self-education, you could Google one of Kirk’s too numerous to detail here comments of anti-Black, anti-women, anti-non-Christian, hateful, divisive rhetoric. As far as your ludicrous statement about college campuses being petri dishes for the indoctrination of young students into liberal thinkers, right-wingers like you abhor the fact that colleges embrace and encourage critical thinking instead of promoting the evangelical Christian national screed that MAGA adherents would love to shove down everyone’s throat. I was always free to drop a class if the curriculum or professor didn’t meet my standards. So spare me any further drivel about college students being captive to liberal professorial brainwashing efforts. We live in America, not Russia or North Korea. Diane Doberman
Broken commitment
Margate, Fla.: Voicer John Fair from Ireland needs to be reminded that Ireland is a signatory to the United Nations Charter, an international treaty, which requires it to honor the charter’s Article 80 that incorporates by reference the 1922 League of Nations Mandate for Palestine and the 1920 San Remo Agreement. Those documents declare all of Israel, including Judea, Samaria and Gaza, to be the reconstituted homeland of the Jewish people, recognizing the 3,500-year indigenous presence of the Jewish people on the land and all the land as sovereign Jewish territory. Ireland’s position in “recognizing Palestine” makes its signature on the UN Charter and every international treaty it has ever signed a joke. Richard Sherman
Leaders should lead
Bellerose: Throughout history, there have been many wars and rumors of wars. Humanity has been plagued with many problems like hate, starvation, disease and war, and now the capacity to destroy mankind with atomic weapons. Our world leaders at the UN need to wake up and decide ways to bring world peace instead of disagreeing with each other. Our creator gave us this planet, and the desire when he created mankind was to love one another and live in peace. I guess they haven’t gotten the message yet. Remember this: Evil thrives when good people do nothing. So, may God help us all in this most troubling of times. Thousands of children are dying from war, starvation, disease and hate. Do the members and world leaders of the UN not care? Frederick Robert Bedell Jr.
Discarded letters
Bayside: Like Voicers Susan Burgos and Josie Oliveri, I too was taught cursive writing in elementary school as well as other important subjects. But it seems like the only things the Department of Education is concerned with are those comprehensive tests where all you need to know is how to fill in the little ovals. Mary Santora
Choose health
Brooklyn: I don’t think it is insensitive and rude to fat-shame. People should get Ozempic, go to a gym or walk more to get exercise. I don’t consider walking back and forth to the refrigerator getting exercise. Guys look like they are nine months pregnant and women have double-size butts. Stay away from buffet restaurants and eliminate soda and bacon. Drink a glass of water before each meal. If the problem is because of depression, see a psychologist. Show a little pride and self-respect and take care of your health. Put the salt shaker down. Don Adler