EPA’s error

Re “EPA chief is said to have ignored staff,” Dec. 21

It was disappointing to read that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson overruled his senior staff in rejecting California’s request to act proactively on greenhouse gases. The EPA will almost certainly lose in court, because the request from California meets all precedents for a waiver under the Clean Air Act.

This purely political move by Johnson is no more than bureaucratic foot-dragging. And what of states’ rights?

S. Dale Colome

Balboa Island