PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • June 28, 2021
Businesses, the media and politicians have realized that we need to act now to slow climate change as scientists and economists have been advocating for decades. A June 12 Economist article (“Bunged up: How the green boom could get stuck”) points out that only 10 percent of the infrastructure needed to meet the 2030 interim goal is in place. The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, has a gradually increasing carbon price and sends the money to Americans in a monthly check. This check will more than cover the increased price of fossil fuels for lower income Americans and help the rest of Americans until the switch to renewables happens. Ask Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden to pass this legislation now. ~ Nancy Hasenfus, Brunswick