Letter to the editor: Pa. legislators should support climate action

Imagine viewing the landscape from your home and seeing uncontrollable wildfires.

Imagine losing your neighborhood to flood damage, summer temperatures so high you cannot feel comfortable and the rising costs of food limiting your grocery budget.

I urge Sens. Bob Casey and Pat Toomey to support President Biden’s bold infrastructure bill in its entirety. Cutting climate change legislation is not an option when the costs of climate damage are becoming insurmountable.

Pennsylvania is the third-largest polluter state in the nation, according to some sources. Last year, the Pennsylvania House of Representatives voted in favor of House Bill 2025, which seeks to block the state’s ability to place limits on harmful carbon dioxide emissions from industrial and other sources. Fewer than 3% of our state legislators support environmental bills.

Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill will create 100% clean energy by 2035 and provide incentives for utilities to build clean and renewable energy while creating jobs for a sustainable economy.

Pennsylvania should be an example of what other states should emulate: a state that does not give precedence to corporations that increase carbon dioxide in our air or pollute our beautiful land, rivers and lakes with byproducts from fracking. Senators Casey and Toomey, be part of the solution!

Judith Flaherty

Brighton Heights