A new legislative session is beginning in Maine, and with it comes a slate of environmental policies that advocates hope will improve the state’s ability to address and mitigate the impacts of climate change while also protecting people’s health in the near-term. Offshore wind power, public transportation, the right to a healthy environment and taking…
The Maine People’s Alliance (of which Beacon is a project) released this week its annual legislative scorecard, rating state policymakers for their votes on legislation ranging from tax fairness measures, to expanding access to health care and housing, to racial equity among others. “With a Democratic governor and Democratic majorities in both chambers, our state…
With wildfires and heat waves raging this summer across the U.S., it’s clear that the effects of climate change are situated squarely in the present tense. In Maine, the story is the same, with the annual temperature 3.2 degrees higher than it was in 1895, the Gulf of Maine heating faster than 99% of the…