BANGOR DAILY NEWS • December 18, 2024
Sen. Susan Collins is particularly skilled at including bills she’s been working on into a session-ending “omnibus bill” that is passed by both the House and Senate and signed into law by the president. Several environmental issues have been brewing over the last Congress. One involves the reform of permitting for major energy transmission improvements. Another issue funds coastline protection against bigger storms and rising sea levels. Finally, the Inflation Reduction Act boosted the efforts of Efficiency Maine and so many other clean energy projects in Maine. Keep that money flowing! All will make this lame duck session fly! So here’s to Sens. Collins and Angus King and Rep. Jared Golden, waving them on their way. ~ Peter Garrett, Ph.D., Citizens Climate Lobby, Foundation for Climate Restoration, Winslow