The Sun Journal recently printed an article that Maine and 10 other states were suing the EPA because they wouldn’t regulate harmful gases such as carbon dioxide. Connecticut Attorney General Richard Blumenthal blamed carbon dioxide for all our environmental problems.

You’ve go to be kidding. Six or more years of law school and they know nothing about science. What a waste of taxpayer’s money this lawsuit is.

Fossil fuels (gas, oil, coal), when burned, give off carbon monoxide, which mixes with our atmosphere creating carbon dioxide. Plants take it in through photosynthesis and give off oxygen so we can all breathe. Then, we give off carbon dioxide.

Your car’s catalytic converter speeds up this process. Carbon dioxide is not a harmful pollutant, but a life-giving gas. Does the state want us to stop using our cars, freeze in our homes or stop breathing?

The Department of Agriculture, with several colleges, has done studies, with tax money, doubling the level of carbon dioxide and found that plants and trees grow much faster, crop yields increased and they use less water. Is government trying to improve our planet or destroy it?

Colleges – institutions of higher learning? Not in our attorney general’s and governor’s case. I got most of my information from a sixth-grade level science source.

Eddie R. Shurtleff, Rumford