BANGOR DAILY NEWS • January 3, 2025
President Jimmy Carter was a great humanitarian, statesman and environmentalist who was ahead of his time. As a Navy submarine officer, he saw the clear and present danger of being reliant on fossil fuels, and as a farmer understood how important it was not to disrupt the climate with excess carbon. Although he wasn’t able to see his entire vision for a sustainable planet take place, he did make milestones federally that we take for granted today. He started America down the right path. Without his actions the Biden administration’s Inflation Reduction Act, which allocates close to $370 billion toward clean energy initiatives and tax breaks never could have happened. Nor would have Maine become the climate leader it is today. ~ Ramona Cornell du Houx, Solon