FORECASTER • July 5, 2022
Maine has traditionally been a “wet” state. Plenty of rain, plenty of snow, plenty of cool, foggy summers. No longer. Climate change has arrived while we were busy sort of pretending that it was an “away” problem. Given this reality and the now-accepted understanding that, yes, it is indeed carbon emissions causing it, I’m just baffled by the latest in the string of confounding decisions by the Supreme Court when they ruled 6-3 to take away much of the Environmental Protection Agency’s ability to regulate those very same carbon emissions. Well, that’s just stupid. We owe our good lives to the EPA, and the Supreme Court just crippled it. ~ Heather Martin