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Dredging deeper
threatens bay ecology
Re: “Way forward for bay dredging seems as clear as mud” (Web page A1, April 10).
Thanks for surfacing the problems of dredging within the San Francisco Bay and highlighting the Port of Oakland’s intention to widen and deepen its turning basins to accommodate bigger cargo ships.
We strongly warning the Port of Oakland towards this plan of action for 2 causes:
1. As a result of their dimension and weight, mega-ships are fueled by closely polluting fossil fuels. These fuels emit air high quality pollution that hurt human well being and add greenhouse gasoline emissions that disrupt our local weather.
2. Extreme dredging for channel and basin widening and deepening will irreversibly disturb marine and coastal ecosystems, threaten wildlife and impression the bay’s water high quality.
Ports should prioritize improvement for trade decarbonization — together with electrification and zero-emission gas bunkering for ships — and cease pointless dredging for mega-ships that don’t have any place in a sustainable future. We’d like decisive motion on local weather change and ecological well being — together with by our ports.
Allyson Browne
Pacific Setting Local weather Marketing campaign Supervisor, Ports, San Francisco
PG&E charge change is
due to new regulation
Current letters right here have complained about PG&E’s proposal of a fixed-rate payment construction for electrical energy primarily based on family earnings.
Sadly, the authors’ anger is misplaced, because the latest information article failed to completely clarify that PG&E is merely implementing AB 205, handed by the supermajority California Legislature and signed into regulation by Gov. Newsom in mid-2022. That regulation specifies that “The fastened cost shall be established on an income-graduated foundation with no fewer than three earnings thresholds so {that a} low-income ratepayer in every baseline territory would understand a decrease common month-to-month invoice with out making any adjustments in utilization.” Together with its purpose of “reasonably priced and equitable” charges, it shifts prices primarily based on utilization to others who can presumably “higher afford it.”
Maybe effort could be higher spent contacting these representatives or main efforts for authorized motion or a brand new state proposition to reverse that regulation.
Andrew West
Fremont
Preserve baseball custom
situated in Oakland
I used to be born in 1965. I used to be raised in Barnesville, Ohio. I turned an A’s fan in 1972 once I noticed Joe Rudi make that unimaginable catch towards my brother John’s favourite crew, the Cincinnati Reds.
I then adopted the A’s religiously — shopping for newspapers in 1979 (108 losses) and once they gained. What the present proprietor and MLB are doing to Oakland is flawed.
Sure, Oakland has to play ball by funding Howard Terminal. However for both Oakland or the proprietor of the A’s to deprive the town of the crew is flawed.
I’ll die an Oakland A’s fan, and even be grateful to Charlie O. for the crew’s improvements. Preserve the A’s in Oakland.
James Schuster
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
Paper ought to set
recycling instance
I suggest the paper undertake a coverage of their carriers recycling the inexperienced baggage by which the paper is delivered by reusing those that clients return to them. The identical with the rubber bands they use.
There isn’t any purpose these ought to go in a landfill if they are often safely used once more. Doing this may occasionally take a bit extra time, however it’s the accountable factor to do.
The paper ought to have excessive ecological requirements.
Joseph Easley
Walnut Creek
Supply readers extra
rounded perspective
As an individual who likes to be totally knowledgeable on all of the essential points dealing with the world, I need to be given info and opinion from each side of the political aisle. Sadly, the East Bay Instances is so severely slanted to at least one aspect it’s not possible to take action when studying your newspaper.
It’s offensive to me when your editorial pages liken one get together of our nation, tens of millions of People, to extremist, radical factions, when in reality I consider all People actually do need our nation to be the most effective it may be, though the 2 main events differ on how one can obtain that purpose.
Please take into account offering your readers with a extra unbiased information presentation, one the place an individual might be introduced with various views after which draw their very own conclusions.
Mark Butler
Discovery Bay
Police union board at
fault in drug scandal
Re: “Drug expenses increase oversight questions” (Web page A1, April 6).
