MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • March 5, 2023
The best place we Mainers can effect meaningful change on climate policy is at the national level. The Inflation Reduction Act recently passed in Congress is projected to get us only some of the way to our Paris Accord goal of reducing fossil fuel pollution 50% by 2030. We need more federal action on climate. Federal clean-energy permitting reform and a national carbon price, which makes fossil fuel companies pay for their pollution, should come next. They will enable the U.S. to make its Paris climate goal. Urge Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Rep. Jared Golden to join Rep. Chellie Pingree and support such a bill when it is reintroduced. ~ Sam Saltonstall, Brunswick