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Questions about clean energy

To the editor: It has been reported that Biden’s No. 1 priority is, wait for it — climate change. The United States, starting in 1955, has enacted numerous laws and regulations regarding air pollution and quality. What started as individual state monitoring saw, by 1970, the Federal government getting involved. During this period vehicle emissions were regulated. Corporations had to list their pollutants that adversely affected human beings and air. The Clean Air Act allowed the companies to be sued. In the 1990, new formulas for gas emission were introduced and from 1990 to ...

Plant closings make little sense

To the editor: The W.H. Sammis Plant in Stratton started producing electricity in 1960, one of the largest coal-fired power facilities in Ohio. At full production capacity, the plant powered thousands of homes and businesses. When air pollution emission controls were needed, $1.3 billion was spent there to keep America’s skies clean. It is beyond any facet of my imagination that a shutdown of all moving machinery will happen and the doors will close, and all will walk away between March 14 and July 15. The many awesome and talented employees, including mechanical maintenance, ...

Procedure common around region

To the editor: Several weeks ago, there was a letter to the editor concerning the Wintersville Village Council meetings (“Questions should be permitted,” Feb. 4.) The person who wrote the letter stated that the general public cannot ask questions or make comments during their meetings. I was always under the impression that all council and school boards were conducted this way so I did some investigating. Toronto, Mingo Junction, Cadiz, Wheeling and Steubenville all have a policy that the general public can only ask questions or make comments at the specific time designated by ...

Where’s the outrage?

To the editor: Less than an hour’s drive from Steubenville, poison has been oozing into the Ohio River on its way to our water supply. Undoubtedly it is not only an environmental disaster, but an economic one, certainly in East Palestine. The administration (a misnomer for the buttheads in Washington) is basically ignoring Ohio. Even the, undoubtedly, vastly experienced secretary of transportation hasn’t seen it fit to get into his Cessna 560XL Jet and visit Ohio. Maybe, after a spate of recent near-plane collisions, he is concerned if he’ll make it to the Beaver County ...

Stand up for school choice

To the editor: Recently, several concerned citizens attended the Indian Creek school board meeting to request they remove themselves from the coalition wrongfully named Vouchers Hurt Ohio, which is an effort to end Ohio’s EdChoice program. Ohio’s EdChoice program allows students in underperforming schools to use the state portion received to go toward the student’s choice, allowing the student to find a better school. The districts continue to keep local funding. There is equity built into the program to allow students from low-income families to attend the school of their ...

Who will start World War III?

To the editor: Nuclear weapons — nine countries, the United States, Russia, France, China, the United Kingdom, Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea have a stockpile of close to 13,000 weapons. Who is going to do it, to start World War III? Who will it be to drop the first nuke? China’s XI? Or North Korea’s Kim Jung-Un? Or America, which is shooting down weather balloons like ducks on a pond? Talking nuclear is not like throwing rocks — no matter who goes first there is nowhere to hide. WW III will not mimic “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (“All in the valley ...