What are the facts about Eliot Cutler’s environmental record?
I have an outstanding record on environmental protection. I was a public servant who helped craft the nation’s foundational environmental laws and was the founder of a law firm that became nationally renowned for achieving win-win solutions to complex environmental and land use problems. The Libby Mitchell campaign released a memorandum to “interested parties” in July that grossly mischaracterizes my environmental record and policies. The Mitchell attack piece uses partial quotes taken out of context to paint a portrait of my record that is totally at odds with the truth about my 40-year career. Leon Billings, former chief of staff to Senator Edmund Muskie, strongly refutes the Mitchell memorandum. “Cutler helped Ed Muskie turn his vision of clean air and clean water into federal law.” Billings openly acknowledges my crucial role in the development of the two most significant and effective environmental laws that Congress has ever enacted, and he has praised my record as an environment
