Congratulations to Amanda Hsieh for successfully publishing her viewpoints essay, Air Quality, in the Friday, May 18 edition of the Houston Chronicle.  Amanda is a volunteer for the Houston Sierra Club’s Rapid Response team.  Amanda incisively revealed the author’s use of a false choice to force the public to side with either clean air---benefiting anyone who breathes or higher fuel efficiency standards---risking job loss. Amanda correctly concluded you can have both, clean air and keep jobs even if we set higher fuel efficiency standards. To read her essay go to https://www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/letters/article/Friday-letters-High-paying-jobs-air-quality-12923941.php?utm_campaign=fb-premium&utm_source=CMS+Sharing+Button&utm_medium=social

 

Interested in changing attitudes about the environment?

 

Consider joining the Houston Sierra Club Rapid Response team.  Our goal is to correct, address, and challenge the incorrect, misleading, under-reported, or one-sided articles in our local newspaper, the Houston Chronicle. You respond to articles in the Houston Chronicle. Your letter to the editor (LTE) will inform the editors which issues are important to their readers. Your LTE will also inform a wider audience. Politicians and candidates read LTE's to 'know' their constituents. We’re all private residents seeking common environmental protection goals, and we'll use the Houston Sierra Club Core Environmental Priorities to guide our big idea responses to issues about air, water, habitat, coasts, transportation, recycling, energy, and environmental justice

 

Email iamespike@gmail.com to receive an invitation to join the Rapid Response team.