pronouncements<\/a> of extremist dogma:<\/p>\n\u201c[Climate change] is the greatest con job perpetrated on the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201c[The carbon footprint] is a hoax made up by people with evil intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you don\u2019t get away from this green scam, your country is going to fail.\u201d<\/p>\n
California is not wrong on environmental policy. The environmental extremist resides in the White House.<\/p>\n
Martin Gelbard, Sherman Oaks<\/p>\n
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To the editor: There seems to be no good arguments for the way our federal administration treats the California coast when it comes to energy production. It has forced the stoppage of offshore wind leases that could provide clean energy to the grid and instead is pushing dirty offshore oil drilling.<\/p>\n
One might argue an all-of-the-above approach for energy independence is best, but this isn\u2019t the case when wind projects are being canceled. One might understand that the president considers windmills off the coastline unsightly. However, oil rigs are not beautiful and their needed onshore refineries are even uglier. They constantly send unhealthful emissions, better described as pollution, into the sky. Offshore wind is pollution-free. There is no such thing as wind spills, but oil production risks very harmful oil spills. California\u2019s past oil spills have caused economic and environmental damage, harming local fisheries and protected areas, not to mention the lost wages due to decreased tourism.<\/p>\n
The only conclusion I can draw for our administration to create more environmental and climate damage is to line the pockets of Big Oil. Doesn\u2019t the health and needs of the many outweigh the profits for a few?<\/p>\n
I oppose any further offshore drilling, especially off our beautiful California coastline. \u201cDrill, baby, drill\u201d is an outdated mantra when there are better energy alternatives today. Think wind and solar with battery storage, as well as wave and tidal power energy production. Clean energy must be part of our solution going forward.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Light, Laguna Niguel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 14, 2026 6 AM PT To the editor: I attended Monday\u2019s National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration hearing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432803,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,9190,9350,28999,2072,5941,171940,152820,171939,171937,123523,3020,171938,1519,97697],"class_list":["post-432802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-clean-energy","tag-coast","tag-drill","tag-editor","tag-energy-production","tag-environmental-extremism","tag-federal-administration","tag-harmful-oil-spill","tag-last-century","tag-offshore-wind-lease","tag-president-trump","tag-reliable-method","tag-trump","tag-wind-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432802\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}