1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Today I take pen in hand to write and urge you to block the Trump EPAs continued destruction of our environment by false and misleading means. There’s a good reason why HFCs used in air conditioning and refrigeration, are called super-pollutants: They ate a key part of tge continued damage to our climate, which is growing increasingly more unstable and erratic. As recently as 2020, HFC regulation was seen as a good thing. Industry even supported it. Using higher-polluting HFCs is simply a step backward for industry, and it’s a tiny fraction of refrigeration costs for stores and warehouses. The real cost of high food prices are the other pollutants: Fossil Fuel prices used in trucking and transporting goods. In the era of climate emergency though, HFCs must not creep back into daily life. This continuous easing of regulations is simply lying about what’s really going on with our planet, and if you think frozen foods are suddenly going to drop significantly, you don’t understand how food prices work. However, I do. And the really bad part is that these super-polluting HFCs will be used more and more as the planet warms. People will use more air-conditioning, data centers will require it, too, and trucking and food storage facilities already mentioned. The fake boogeyman of too much regulation is a smoke screen for industry to do whatever awful things they’re aren’t allowed to do today. It’s health, ethics and our planet all in one with issues like this. Don’t give in to this free-for-all. Defend our health and planet. Block these moves, demand the EPA simply do its job. Thank you.