Ms. Jenna Shue is a 16 year old Junior at Hampden H.S. here in Maine. Concerened about what very well could be pollution issuing forth from an industrial site near her home she wrote a letter to the editor in the Bangor Daily News about it. Her letter and her activism spurred Maine House Representitive Jeffery Kaelin (R- Winterport) to bring L.D.1408 to Maine's Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources. Ms. Shue came to the public hearing to testify in favour of passage and was invited to meet with Maine's Governor John Baldacci as well.

Rep. Jeffery Kaelin, Ms. Jenna Shue and Gov. John Baldacci discuss proposed anti-pollution bill L.D.1408 and the fact that Maine has one of the highest rates of Asthma in the Nation.
Ms. Jenna Shue testifies before Maine's Joint Standing Committee on Natural Resources in favour of passage of proposed anti-pollution bill L.D.1408.
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