Maui, Hawaii has a lot of Sugar Cane burning, the HC&S Sugar Mill is "Grandfathered In" so it does not have to comply with any regulation at all. Infact they burn the most outrageous dirty coal with billows filthy black smoke. They airiate sulpher contaminated mill water and create levels of hydrogen sulphide many times the allowed levels on a daily basis along the main highway. This subsidiary of Alexander & Baldwin one of the largest international Corps, has complete control of our local politicians, eventhough they no longer supply even a tiny percentage of island jobs. They employ less than 900 people and are allowed to pollute air, water and ocean on a massive scale, eventhough the local Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, and many other businesses employ more than 900 each. The local population lives in the past, where sugar was the main employer and if you questioned anything you got blacklisted, off the island or beaten or worse. Help!

We got coal burning power plants not using adequate scrubbers, cement plants pouring mercury into the atmosphere, incinerators of hazardous wastes with lack of adequate monitoring to insure minimal contamination. Children are suffering the most with a BIG jump in asthma diagnosis. More people are dying from lung cancer who have never smoked, or been around others who do. Add to this trying to get counties to require emissions testing for automobiles. The atmospheric effects of gases from big animal feedlot operations. Burning fields at the end of each season. In Canyon and Ada Country, the beet factory pours out a brown haze every Fall and Winter. The haze gets trapped by an inversion of the mountains' cooler air. Whatever you can do, however you can help, thank you Thank you for going, for representing us, for taking your time. Air, water, and earth-our basics need help. Some of those who are being destructive are blind, some short sighted. I hope you can help them see.

Thanks for all the work that you do! I live in Post Falls and we too used to be blanketed by the smoke from the field burning every late summer, it created haze so thick that you could almost cut it with a knife. People with respiratory problems and allergies found it unbearable and potentially life threatening. We all must do everything we can to support and strengthen the clean air act and not revert back to the uncontrolled field burning.

I support your efforts to stand up for the right of Idaho citizens to breathe clean air. What could be more basic? A right we should not be denied!

Dear Marc, thanks so much for you work to make the air we breath cleaner. What to say of the ghastly state of our nation when it comes to pollution? With inumerable status quo profiteers controlling the system it will take a grassroots uprising to change things. Good luck in affecting change with the acute problem of agricultural burning and please keep in mind the chronic problem of greenhouse gas emissions. The status quo profiteers are trying to disenfranchise the EPA, undefine CO2 as a pollutant, and destroy the Clean Air Act. We can't let this happen and appreciate you being an agent for the change WE, THE PEOPLE, so desperately need.

Regards, DP
Boise, Id

Not only is agricultural burning harmful to humans, it is also harmful to the soil! Let's educate farmers on sustainable organic farming.

Thank you, Marc!

Hi Marc! I remember you from my 32 years teaching at the University of Idaho in Moscow. So glad you got the "burning season" under control!!

I support your efforts to stand up for the right of Idaho citizens to breathe clean air. What could be more basic? A right we should not be denied!

Dear Marc, thank you for your courage and common sense. Coal fired plants, Industrial trash burners, field burning, industry pollution, auto emissions (who cares in Idaho right?), mercury, green house gasses, etc., all have a cumulative effect that is poisoning our lungs (I have a son with Asthma, one of several health epidemics occurring that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine is chemical induced), is poisoning our air, and slowly killing our planet. You have my support as a fellow Idaho resident. We seem to be in a minority in a state that often embarrasses me for their one party system and deep corruption. Way to go!

I lived in Moscow for several years. I remember the smoke. Thanks for advocating for such important legislation.

I agree, Marc! I remember how some of those cities used to be, too, and I would hate for the air conditions to return to being so deplorable. Thank you for standing up for the health of Idaho's citizens.

Thank you, Marc!