The New York Times had an article on Mary D. Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board, the work the board does, and some of the opposition to the this work. See “U.S. Climate Change Policy: Made in California”, Hiroko Tabuchi, 2017-09-27
It is amazing the corporate and “conservative” opposition to this work. On the other hand, the comments were overwhelming in favor of clean air and the necessary regulation to obtain it. And the profits to be made by leading the world in providing a clean environment instead of making matters worse.
Thus my title. You would think that “conservatives” would be all in favor or preserving the clean air and water that “God gave us”. Instead, they seem hell-bent on destroying them, bringing us back to days of heavy smog and burning rivers.
My own little comment was to a contributor who had been in China recently where pollution is endemic but the government is taking steps to improve the air quality. I pointed out that “we the people” had enough of the pollution from backyard burning barrels.
