BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 2, 2021
What the recent report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change makes clear is that we can’t afford to continue to put short-term gain above the long-term health and prosperity of our planet. Our days of burning fossil fuels must come to an end as soon as possible, and one step Congress should take right now is to make the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge off-limits to the dirty business of oil and gas drilling. Congress must vote to permanently protect the refuge. ~ Michael Catania, Portland