Prioritize health, climate and future

Mar 10, 2025 1 min read

To the editor:

I’m writing as a resident of Sanibel to ask U.S. Rep. Byrons Donalds to prioritize our health, climate and future. This includes:

– Stopping efforts to repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s climate and clean energy policies that would put us on a path to cut climate pollution 40% by 2030, create 9 million jobs and lower energy prices.

– Blocking the Trump administration from cutting vital environmental protection programs in order to pay for tax cuts for the wealthy.

As a Sanibel resident, these issues are very important to me. Major hurricanes have hit Sanibel four times in the past three years and in 2022 one totally destroyed my condo. I believe that unchecked climate change will make this more likely to happen again.

I urge Representative Donalds to protect people in our community over corporate polluters. We need you to fight for us!

Marge Peppercorn

Sanibel