PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 13, 2024
President Biden has led the largest climate investment in U.S. history for CO2 and methane reduction, renewable energy, electrification, R&D and carbon monitoring. Donald Trump, is a champion of the oil industry. House Republicans are proposing to cut the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget enough to cripple the agency. They have suggested slashing the EPA administrator’s salary to $1. Trump will dismember EPA, build new roads through Alaska’s old growth stands in Tsongas National Forest, resurrect the Keystone pipeline for carbon-laden tar sands, and open up new oil drilling along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. American credibility around the world will sink while greenhouse emissions will soar, condemning us to decades of regrettable consequences. It’s a make-or-break year environmentally. ~ Jake Plante, author, “Reflections on the Environmental Movement and the Role of Governance”