SUN JOURNAL • October 11, 2020
With much of America’s West Coast burning and Southeast Coast flooding, it’s amazing that the subject of climate change has barely been mentioned in the Susan Collins-Sarah Gideon Senatorial slugfest. In a state which can rightly claim to have birthed the environmental movement and which remains in the forefront of progressive environmental policy, one hears scarcely a word from either candidate about climate change. A Maine Congressional delegation unified behind a systematic national and international approach to fighting climate change could become the greatest catalyst for responsible environmental policy since Rachel Carson wrote her seminal work and Edmund Muskie safely guided the Clean Air and Water Acts through legislative minefields. ~ Elliott Epstein