AQMD Efforts Have Helped
As I was driving today on the 55 freeway in a singularly dense smog that obscured the mountains, I was infuriated all over again at the headlines in today’s (Aug. 9) Times stating that nine top scientific advisors to the Air Quality Management District have quit, protesting the group’s latest smog plan.
It is alarming that Assembly Speaker Curt Pringle’s fanatical support of business at the expense of the environment has created political pressure that will impact us negatively for years to come.
As a lifelong Orange County resident, I’ve seen our air improve steadily, thanks to the AQMD’s mandates over the last decade.
Yet as mayor I have just returned from Washington arguing issues with the Department of Defense that relate to Orange County’s air quality--which, in spite of improvements, is still the worst in the country.
I am appalled that pressure from the top to ignore and discard the newest research on air quality threatens to make our air still worse.
Who cares if we create even more jobs if our air is so polluted that nobody wants to live here?
TRACY WILLS WORLEY
Mayor
Tustin
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