BROKEN PROMISES: SENATOR COLLINS’ VOTE TO DRILL THE ARCTIC REFUGE
Senator Susan Collins, Maine’s senior Senator, once heroically stood up for national treasures. She spoke out and stood up for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. That all changed in 2017, when Senator Collins cast one of the swing and decisive votes in favor of the GOP Tax Act that mandated oil leasing in the Arctic Refuge.
Disappointed Mainers are speaking out in this new ad from Alaska Wilderness League Action about her catastrophic 2017 vote :
AWLA executive director Adam Kolton on Senator Collins’ Record on the Arctic Refuge:
I’ve long believed that we have a responsibility to cultivate and support those who stand up for America’s public lands and waters, irrespective of political party. Senator Susan Collins, Maine’s senior Senator, was once in that category, speaking out and standing up for the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge among other cherished landscapes. But when President Donald Trump was elected, he and the Senate GOP leadership set their sights on drilling the Arctic Refuge as part of an “energy dominance” agenda, and in 2017 Senator Collins flip-flopped, casting one of the swing and decisive votes in favor of the GOP Tax Act that mandated oil leasing in the Arctic Refuge.
Read more on Senator Collins’ record on the Arctic Refuge here.
News:
Maine needs leaders who will take climate change seriously (Bangor Daily News, 10/26/2020)
Collins shifts dramatically on climate change, accepts $290k from fossil fuel industry (Maine Beacon, 10/25/2020)
Senator Collins has turned her back on public lands (Maine Beacon, 10/23/2020)
Alaska Wilderness League Action Launches Ad Campaign Targeting Sen. Susan Collins Statement by Adam Kolton, Executive Director (10/20/2020)