TO THE EDITOR:
Sadly, House Bill 298, which rolls back our renewable energy portfolio standards requirement, passed through the House commerce subcommittee by a narrow margin. Though legislators and lobbyists on both sides have focused mainly on the economic consequences of renewable energy investment, we should remind ourselves that renewable energy moves us toward an environmentally sustainable future.
The switch to renewable energies will greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and thus limit the effects of global warming.
More importantly, investing in renewable energies would improve the very environment we live in by moving away from dirty fossil fuel emissions and ensuring that our air and water quality does not continue to deteriorate.
If having clean air to breathe and clean water to drink is important to us, we should be taking all the steps necessary maintain these resources.
Ting Ting Eeo ’15
Environmental studies
