SUN JOURNAL • May 17, 2020
Throughout our careers, we have worked to protect the North Woods of Maine in leadership positions. Ensuring a healthy future for the Maine Woods and the animals and plants it nurtures requires that we recognize their biggest threat — climate change. We have carefully weighed the benefits and impacts of the New England Clean Energy Connect and believe it is one important step to immediately begin reducing the emissions causing climate change. ~ Thomas Rumpf, formerly at The Nature Conservancy and Maine Forest Service; Lloyd Irland, formerly at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Maine Bureau of Public Lands and Maine State Economist