PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • July 28, 2022
When climate talks broke down in Congress earlier this month, Americans were quick to lay all of the blame on Sen. Joe Manchin. By leveraging the future of our entire planet as a bargaining chip to negotiate his pet projects and to line his own pockets, the West Virginia senator is certainly at fault. But Manchin is hardly the only culprit. Equal responsibility falls to our 50 Republican senators, all of whom have refused to consider the common-sense provisions on the table. Instead, they have chosen to treat climate change not like the existential threat that it is, but as a petty partisan issue. ~ Bill Mook, president of Mook Sea Farm in Walpole and a founding member of the Shellfish Growers Climate Coalition