We deserve a commitment to slowing climate change – and real action to prove that commitment. Photo: Shutterstock.
The Problem
Climate change isn’t waiting. Every day we continue to burn outdated fossil fuels to power our lives, we see the real-world impacts of climate-damaging emissions. Indeed, here in Maine, we experienced those impacts first-hand in the devastating storms that wreaked havoc this past winter. Storms that downed power lines, submerged roads, destroyed wharves and piers, and left families shivering in the dark for days.
Where Things Stand
Despite the painful and expensive realities of climate change, Maine’s government has failed to develop and implement the solutions necessary to slash carbon pollution overheating our state and our planet. This failure flies in the face of the state’s 2019 law mandating drastic cuts to emissions. The law…