Muskie, Udall at Cadillac Mountain, 1962
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Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library
While Walter Lawrance worked to improve the water quality of the Androscoggin River, Muskie operated on a larger stage.
When he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1958, he was assigned to the Public Works Committee, which had little influence.
Known as the father of the modern environmental movement, Muskie turned the committee and its Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, formed in 1965, into important voices.
Muskie believed that environmental regulations needed enough science and scientific analysis to justify the Federal government getting involved.
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