PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • January 20, 2023
Soon after it was clear that the Republicans controlled the House of Representatives, there was speculation that that we had seen the last effort for the next two years to make headway on President Biden’s climate goal of reducing U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions by achieving a 50%-52% reduction from 2005 levels by 2030. However, there are several important actions that the Environmental Protection Agency and the rest of the Biden administration can do to reduce U.S. greenhouse-gas emissions. Thousands of lives could be saved every year if limits for a deadly air pollutant are made as low as possible. ~ Rev. Richard Killmer, Yarmouth