To the editor: Southern California has the most smogg air in the country (“Los Angeles remains the most symway of the nation for 25º in 26 years, despite progress,” April 23). Smog's human toll is not just numbers in a table: they are children in inhalers, the elders rushed to the emergency and lives room are interrupted.
Local and state leaders must reach the time. The District of Air Quality Management of the South Coast can lead the rules passing to make households to electricity and efficient water heat pumps. These rules, along with incentives, can help transform our Smoggy air.
AQMD should not let fossil fuel interests get in the way of clean air. Pass strong rules to get the pollution from our homes and clean the air in our lungs.
Christopher Chavez, Long Beach
This writer is director of Deputy Policy of the Clean Air Coalition.
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To the editor: It is good that we, as a society, continue to demand a better air quality. I am one of those readers who grew up in the Los Angeles basin in the 50s and 60s when the Smog was incomparably worse. No need for instruments to detect ozone: its sweet smell was obvious.
With so much pessimism about the world, it is important to remember and remember the younger readers that things can improve.
Bob Wieting, Simi Valley
