The Climate Emergency Declaration of East Hampton Town’s Energy Sustainability Committee is in line with what scientists, environmental groups and informed citizens have been saying for years: We need to dramatically expand “all climate mitigation efforts.”
Many on the East End have noted the stark incongruity of various officials and committees not even mentioning our pollution engine airport as the single-most egregious carbon emitter (38 million metric tons annually), and, soon, the easiest to eliminate. Is it even thinkable that another facility polluting to that extent, selling almost a million gallons of aviation fuel (900,000 annually), responsible for a disastrous poisoning of our sole-source aquifer (now a Superfund cleanup site), providing negligible economic benefit, and serving only a small cohort of wealthy and irresponsible polluters would be ignored in serious environmental discussions?
Why bother with offshore wind and wonderful proposals if we won’t even stop the worst pollution in our own backyard?
Barry Raebeck
Wainscott
Shut Him UpFolks: it is time to take Michael Daly at his word(s), unpleasant as that may be. First: glide by his smarmy greeting card calls for “love.” His own words reveal him, above all, and consistently, a purveyor of hate and...
Suffering in SilenceWhen our world gets out of balance, we lose our comfort and security. Too much or too little of anything spikes our fear, and we lose our sense of peace. Those who have what they want and need are comfortable....
Advocate & Adjudicate?The previous administration of [Supervisor Jay] Schneiderman and current board member Tommy John Schiavoni did not give high priority to monitoring appointed public officials for ethical lapses in their private life activities. This laissez-faire policy towards ethics enforcement appears to...
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A Web of InterestsKudos to Craig Catalanotto [“What Are We Doing?” Letters, April 18] and Barbara Ring [“Tangled Web” Letters, April 18] for their letters to the editor shining a light on the web of special interests, conflicts of interest and misinformation that...
Dates of InfamySeptember 11 and October 7, similar dates of infamy for strong allies with similarly divergent reactions. Now gathered mobs of protesters are cheering on those who cry “Death to America” and call for the complete annihilation and genocide of the...
Your VoiceOn June 25, registered Democrats will go to the ballot box to determine who will represent their ticket for New York’s 1st Congressional District. Although CD1 has recently been held by Republicans, both parties have assumed leadership over the years....
Master ClassI thank Barbara Ring for aptly proving my point. In response to my letter [“An Alliance,” Letters, April 11], which decried the state of civic public discourse in Hampton Bays as being overtaken by misinformation, fear-mongering and conspiracy peddling, Ring...
