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The Sierra Club National Political Team and the Maine Chapter endorsed Graham Platner in the Democratic primary for US Senate today, backing a candidate who has made defending Maine’s farmland, forest and coast from corporate power central to his campaign.

A Marine Corps veteran and an oysterman on the Maine coast, Platner makes his living the way generations of Mainers have — on the water.  LIke so many, his work, his famly and his community depend on a healthy environment and he’s watched how the corporate interests squeezing Maine’s hardworking families are the same ones polluting its air and water.

The endorsement marks a sigificant show of support from one of the state’s environmental organizations whose members have spent decades fighting to protect Maine’s lands and waters.

“Graham Platner understands that Maine’s way of life depends on the health of our environment and that the communities most exposed to climate change and polluters are the same communities that have been left behind by Washington for too long,” said Emma Conrad, Polidtical Committee Chair of the Sierra Club Maine.  “Graham will be a senator who fights for clear air, clean water and a livable climate and who won’t back down to the corporate polluters and fossil fuel interests trying to take our future from us.  We’re proud to endorse him.”

“Like many Mainers, I work on the water, so I see the impacts of the climate crisis every day and know how critical it is to protect our natural resources,” said Graham Platner.  “For working Mainers, protecting the environment and standing up to corporate power are the same fight.  The same giant corporatdions that squeeze our wages and jack up our costs are the ones poisoning the Maine we know and love.  Protecting our environment and our way of life go hand in hand and I’m grateful to have the Sierra Club in this fight with me,” he said in a press release issued this afternoon by his US Senate Campaign.

Graham lives in Sullivan with his wife, Amy Gertner, just three doors down from the house where he grew up.