Environment
I helped Ed Muskie write the laws that protect our environment – the Clean Air Act & the Clean Water Act – and I have helped to develop environmentally responsible airports, highways and other job-creating projects. I know how to achieve balance, because I’ve done it.
People live here, move here and visit here because Maine is special. Maintaining that “quality of place” is one of the most important investments we can make in our future. That means respecting and protecting our natural environment and our wild and scenic places. That means preserving farmland, forests, harbors and downtowns.
I helped Ed Muskie write the laws that protect our environment – the Clean Air Act and the Clean Water Act – and I have helped to develop environmentally responsible airports, highways and other job-creating projects. I know how to achieve balance, because I’ve done it.
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My Role Writing the Clean Air & Clean Water Acts
“When I was the Staff Director of Ed Muskie’s Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, Eliot worked for and with me. He was part of a small team that wrote the first tough Federal oil spill cleanup law. It not only made the oil industry strictly liable for oil spills but also protected Maine’s first-in-the-nation oil spill cleanup law. “Later, Eliot helped Ed Muskie turn his vision of clean air and clean water into federal law. He helped Senator Muskie and me write the 1970 Clean Air Act and the 1972 Clean Water Act, laws that have both meant so much to Maine.