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Today we talk with Julia St Clair and Amy Eshoo and hear how Maine Youth for Climate Justice and 350Maine are working together.

On Earth Day the Natural Resources Council of Maine teamed up with the Telling Room for an afternoon webinar showcasing inspirational environmental poetry written by Maine youth moderated by Samaa Abdurraqib. Here are the young Maine poets reading their original poems plus a poem from Samaa and a poem and an Earth Day message from Governor Mills.



In the second half of the show we hear from Peter Dugas, KC Hughs and Peter Munroe talking about the Citizens Climate Lobby.

You have a right to free speech and the right to own a gun, but a right to clean air, land and water? You may be surprised to hear the answer in our conversation with the women behind the Pine Tree Amendment: Andy Burt and Michelle Henkin along with Maya van Rossum, author of The Green Amendment and the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations.

This is part 2 of 2 episodes on the Pine Tree Amendment.

Later in the episode we will hear the new single from Percy Hill.

You have a right to free speech and the right to own a gun, but a right to clean air, land and water? You may be surprised to hear the answer in our conversation with the women behind the Pine Tree Amendment: Andy Burt and Michelle Henkin along with Maya van Rossum, author of The Green Amendment and the founder of Green Amendments For The Generations.

This is part 1 of 2 episodes on the Pine Tree Amendment.

Today we take you behind the scenes at WMPG and talk with Dale Robin Goodman, Jessica Lockhart and Jim Rand….

Sue Ely, Climate and Clean Energy Policy Advocate and staff attorney for the Natural Resources Council of Maine explains why NRCM believes Central Maine Power’s 145 mile high voltage transmission line, a project planning to carve a 150 wide path through the Maine North woods in order to transfer Canadian hydro power to Massachusetts is a bad deal for Maine.