MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • October 17, 2021
President Biden has pledged to cut fossil-fuel emissions sharply within the next decade. To meet that goal, his administration wants to deploy perhaps thousands of offshore wind turbines. With the harmful, life-altering effects of human-caused climate change already being felt, it would be disastrous for the U.S., the world’s largest per capita polluter, to fail to meet its goal, and it would be difficult to do that without energy produced by offshore wind. But it’s also left Maine’s lobster industry wondering if they fit in. It’s a legitimate question, and one Gov. Janet Mills has shown she will take seriously.