PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • August 9, 2025
Each day brings another outrageous executive order, false accusation or blatant lie from Donald Trump. A newly minted outrage involves Trump’s EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, who is attempting to rewrite science by discrediting the fact that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. As though Trump’s efforts to halt offshore wind farms, open up federal lands to fracking and expand natural gas exports were not contributing enough to the climate crisis. We, in Maine, can do our part by urging our representatives in Congress to block Trump’s anti-environment agenda; switching to renewable technologies, particularly electric vehicles and heat pumps; altering our lifestyles to reduce energy consumption; and never giving up hope. ~ Joe Hardy, Wells