| Press Enterprise - Letter to the Editor 7/20/2007 Fear quarry effects The article, "China's fouled air reaches Oregon peak" (July 15) -- about evidence that soot and chemical particles are traveling to the United States from China -- was a real eye-opener. In the article, an Environmental Protection Agency administrator said the agency recognizes that air pollution travels great distances. What is not known, he said, "is how much pollution is moving over those distances, how much real impact it is having on public health downwind in the environment." If air pollutants are reaching the West Coast from China, why shouldn't local residents feel a much greater threat would be posed from ongoing blasting and diesel emissions at and around the proposed Liberty Quarry site in the hills near Temecula? If the worst of these negative effects is considered life-threatening and irreversible, how much risk is tolerable when it comes to the health of our children, friends and neighbors? PETE FRIEDERICH Temecula |