To the editor: All credit score to Mayor Rey Leon and the great residents of Huron, Calif., for management and innovation of their Green Raiteros program. It was encouraging to see {that a} related initiative giving residents free entry to electrical vehicles is being tried in San Pedro.
Your article appropriately famous that the Rancho San Pedro neighborhood, which borders the Port of Los Angeles, is likely one of the most polluted areas in Southern California. Wilmington, west Long Beach and the communities alongside the 710 Freeway are equally polluted due to the operations of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. These are so-called environmental justice communities whose residents are majority decrease earnings and folks of coloration.
Perhaps the rich ports may supply some small gesture of mitigation for the egregious well being impacts of their diesel air pollution by funding related electrical automobile efforts in these struggling communities.
Noel Park, Rancho Palos Verdes
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To the editor: Thank you for the article in regards to the free ride-sharing program in Huron, Calif.
Mayor Leon has chosen to return to the world the place he was raised after graduating from UC Berkeley. He is making a big contribution to this neighborhood by making use of for and receiving grants to run a free ride-sharing program, hiring locals and offering rides for folks to get to medical and different needed appointments — and with electrical vehicles!
We want extra tales like this one to encourage all of us to make a optimistic distinction in our native communities.
Kate Mead, Santa Barbara
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To the editor: The first paragraph of this story mentions “windfalls for big agribusiness.” Thanks for selling the stereotype that each one ranchers are rich tycoons. (Sarcasm alert on that one.)
My household owns a 40-acre orange ranch in that space and has but to see a revenue in 5 years. We are hardly rich and are simply hanging on.
Not all ranches are owned by “big agribusiness.”
Robert Price, Atascadero, Calif.
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To the editor: Kudos to The Times for this well timed article underscoring native motion on local weather change, and for inaugurating a tantalizing new sequence, the “United States of California,” which I hope will delve into our state’s cutting-edge pondering and actions geared toward addressing issues usually world in scope.
With a big share of America’s folks, vehicles, air pollution and brains, Huron’s revolutionary electrical fleet initiative is smart and may stimulate related and additional actions amongst different cities.
Tom Osborne, Laguna Beach