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Biden’s climate agenda: Letters

Re “Democrats say Biden hasn’t touted climate achievements” (Jan. 28):

I fully agree with this article. President Biden has done more for the climate than any other president. Unlike his opposition, he knows that climate change is real, that it is being caused by the use of fossil fuels and that government action worldwide is necessary to slow and eventually reverse its effects. This legislation during his first two years in office has been truly astounding. The Inflation Reduction Act is the single largest bill ever signed into law to fight climate change. The leadership he has demonstrated to the rest of the world has been essential in getting other world leaders on board. It is critical that not only President Biden be re-elected, but also that both houses of Congress be in the Democrats’ hands. The climate crisis requires bold action now.

— Larry Kramer, San Juan Capistrano

15-215 freeway bottleneck

In David Downey’s Jan. 29 article about the freeway construction in Temecula, he failed to mention several important issues that will continue to affect the bottleneck issue even after construction is complete. The first issue is the fact that people continue to live far from where they work and that they are the problem and not the freeway design. The second is that the politicians keep approving more house construction that brings more commuters as well as taxing our water supply and power grid. They do this in the name of a housing shortage that they say is the cause of homelessness. Instead of addressing the real cause that causes the majority of homelessness, which is mental health and drug addiction. After spending hundreds of millions of dollars on the freeway, commuters will still be wasting hours a day sitting in their cars.

— Larry Dubois, Norco

U.S.-Mexico border bill

What’s with the House and Senate (Jan. 28) back and forth about a border bill? They don’t need to do anything. Biden got rid of Trump’s stay-in-Mexico border policy, which was working, by executive order. How about Biden just reinstate Trump’s border policy, by executive order. Boom, done, problem solved. And if he reinstated all of Trump’s other policies, which he got rid of, tweak them a little, claim them as new and his own, the media would be more than happy to call him a genius and carry his water right through to a second term.

— Roger Olsen, Burbank