To the Editor:
Re “Concealed Weapons Against the Environment,” by Robert B. Semple Jr. (Annotation, editorial page, July 31), about the House Republicans’ use of anti-environmental legislative riders to change policy:
If Republicans truly believed in the power of market forces, they would enforce and even strengthen environmental regulations, so that pricing reflects the true cost of a product.
Instead, when they secretly strip out protections, we get the banking industry’s principle at work: privatized profits while the rest of us bear the cost of cleanup and damaged health.
NANCY SOMERVILLE
Orlando, Fla., Aug. 2, 2011
