Drew Ketterer’s Feb. 5 op-ed (“Climate superfund bill is an impractical choice for Maine”), concerning LD 1870, continues the petroleum industry’s history of misleading information (he is an attorney for petroleum companies, no surprise there).
Readers should be aware of a 2025 report, endorsed by 12 national health organizations (including Physicians for Social Responsibility PSR, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, American Public Health Association, Children’s Environmental Health Network, Climate Psychiatry Alliance, Climate Psychology Alliance North America, The International Society for Environmental Epidemiology North America Chapter, The Medical Society Consortium on Climate & Health, Medical Students for a Sustainable Future, the National Medical Association, Oncology Advocates United for Climate and Health and the Public Health Institute), which found 350,000 premature deaths each year in the U.S. due to the fossil fuel industry.
The fossil fuel industry and its attorneys will continue to make the perfect the enemy of the good as they obfuscate and delay action to address the pollution and climate change impacts they are directly responsible for causing.
Mark Follansbee
Scarborough
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