The article titled “Obama’s Conservation Legacy in the Four Corners” (Herald, Jan. 19), was well-written and informative, but was marred by an error in the penultimate paragraph in labeling Environmental Protection Agency administrator nominee Scott Pruitt a “climate change denier.”
On Jan. 18, Mr. Pruitt clearly testified before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that he believes that “science tells us the climate is changing and human activity in some matter impacts that change.”
To use a pejorative term with a historically negative connotation to describe someone who is indeed skeptical about the degree and the extent of that impact and what to do about it (as millions of Americans are) seems scurrilous to me.
This is one of many examples of why trust in the news media has sunk to historic lows.
Please try harder in the future to report the news in an unbiased manner and help restore some of that lost trust.
John Mumaw
Cortez
