MAINE GOVERNMENT NEWS • April 22, 2023
"Addressing the first Earth Day gathering in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park on this day fifty-three years ago, Maine Senator Ed Muskie called for ‘an environmental revolution,’ and told the 30,000 people assembled, ‘we are not powerless to accomplish this change, but we are powerless as a people if we wait for someone else to do it for us.’ For more than half a century, Maine people have heeded Senator Muskie’s call to action….On this Earth Day, let us remember Senator Muskie’s call to take action and recommit ourselves to continuing to lead here in Maine.”