BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 29, 2020
Rep. Dick Campbell’s OpEd, “Susan Collins is fighting climate change and growing clean energy jobs,” that ran on October 10 is simply untrue. Sen. Collins has accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in campaign donations from the oil and gas industry. She voted for massive tax breaks for big oil companies that are polluting our air and water and making climate change worse. No one deserves brownie points for saying climate change exists, especially not a senator who supported Trump’s tax plan that opened the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas drilling. With all due respect to Collins, she is absolutely not an environmental champion. We need to send Sara Gideon to Washington on Nov. 3. ~ Roger Berle, Cliff Island