CENTRAL MAINE • September 5, 2024
Fossil fuels have made our lives easier in profound ways. We drive or fly here and there, much of what we buy comes from far away. We heat and cool our buildings, and benefit in so many ways with household and other conveniences. A changing climate is the legacy we are leaving. The Paris Agreement of 2015 correctly called for reductions in emissions of all greenhouse gases. Efforts have gone into replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy worldwide. But it’ll never be enough because those gases are still warming the Earth. We need to remove them. Sen. Collins has introduced the Carbon Removal and Emissions Storage Technologies (CREST) Act, to fund research and development of technologies to do just that. Thank her, and ask her to fit it into the Omnibus Bill that will close this Congress. ~ Peter Garrett, Winslow, Citizens Climate Lobby and Foundation for Climate Restoration