While I agree with Art McCallum’s support for hydropower and other green energy systems, in a Nov. 8 letter “Hydropower attracts business,” I was mystified by his praise for Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler’s, R-Camas, environmental record. According to The Columbian’s website, she voted to change the Clean Air Act to prohibit the EPA from regulating (reducing) harmful greenhouse gases. She voted to eliminate environmental rules protecting us from offshore emissions from oil rigs in Alaska. In 2013, she voted to eliminate EPA permits for forest road runoff, increasing the risk of pollution of our steams and rivers.
Indeed, it is grotesquely wrong to characterize Herrera Beutler as a supporter of a clean environment when her record clearly demonstrates the opposite.
George Curtin
Camas
