Purchase, N.Y.: Re “The world must cut damaging methane” (op-ed, Sept. 21): Methane is killing us and our planet. While New York may not have an official place on the world stage, the state must still be a climate leader. As the U.S. denies climate change, it’s up to states to stand up as they are for health policy. Only now, Gov. Hochul seems to be willing to go backwards on climate policy.

The draft State Energy Plan calls for continued methane pollution by slowing implementation of the state’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Law. In particular, it leaves out the Cap-and-Invest plan necessary to produce revenue to invest in new clean energy projects.

Hochul supports the President Trump-backed and once-rejected Williams fracked gas pipeline that would dig under New York Harbor to the Rockaways, releasing industrial toxins and leaving us the gas infrastructure legacy that will last and cost us for decades while spurring methane emissions. Probably with Hochul’s pressure, the Public Service Commission has greenlit it. Now the pipeline is in the hands of the Department of Environmental Conservation, which previously rejected it based on harm to water quality and marine life. The same facts must lead to the same conclusion.

I’m a great-grandmother, and I believe that everyone’s great-grandchildren deserve a clean and healthy environment. To that end, we must resist continued methane pollution and the Williams pipeline. Anne Sweazey

Brooklyn: To Voicer Frank Feeley: When the current occupant of the White House starts respecting the office of the presidency, maybe comedians will ease up, but since the orange menace respects no one and nothing but money, that ain’t happening. Carol Katz

Kearny, N.J.: Those on the receiving end of Donald Trump’s vile insults, threats and impacts on their livelihoods could do themselves and all of us a huge favor if they took a page from the whiny, thin-skinned punk’s book: James and Maurene Comey, the Vindman........

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