Commentary: Five steps to Maine’s green COVID recovery
Aim high; make equity a priority; invest in a modern clean-energy grid; join the regional transportation initiative, and establish an energy storage roadmap.
By Peter Rothstein and Fortunat MuellerSpecial to the Press Herald
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It doesn’t take much imagination to draw parallels between the COVID-19 pandemic and the climate crisis. Both crises present a global danger to our lives, threaten to disrupt our economy and disproportionately affect low-income communities and communities of color. But the pandemic has also shown that regional, national and international communities can respond quickly and meaningfully when a global crisis arises, and has woken us up to the urgent need to take action now on climate change.