Each day brings another outrageous executive order, false accusation or blatant lie from Donald Trump. He calls Barack Obama and his Department of Justice “scum,” obfuscates about his involvement with the late Jeffrey Epstein, attempts to bully and humiliate Fed Chair Jerome Powell, defies the rule of law in his immigration policies, refuses to stop the famine in Gaza and, despite his bragging about quickly ending the war in Ukraine, can’t bring himself to confront Vladimir Putin.

A newly minted outrage involves Trump’s EPA chief, Lee Zeldin, who is attempting to rewrite science by discrediting the fact that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas. As though Trump’s efforts to halt offshore wind farms, open up federal lands to fracking and expand natural gas exports were not contributing enough to the climate crisis.

This summer we have experienced one heat wave after another, and indications are that 2025 will break more temperature records. Flash floods are becoming the norm, Canadian wildfires are still burning out of control and with NOAA’s personnel cuts and more moisture in the air, who knows what this season’s hurricane season will bring us.

We, in Maine, can do our part by urging our representatives in Congress to block Trump’s anti-environment agenda; switching to renewable technologies, particularly electric vehicles and heat pumps; altering our lifestyles to reduce energy consumption; and never giving up hope.

Joe Hardy
Wells