{"id":249649,"date":"2024-04-25T18:32:41","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T18:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/its-time-for-maine-to-deliver-on-its-climate-law\/"},"modified":"2024-04-25T19:42:09","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T19:42:09","slug":"its-time-for-maine-to-deliver-on-its-climate-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.republicofgreen.com\/its-time-for-maine-to-deliver-on-its-climate-law\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s Time for Maine to Deliver on Its Climate Law\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"custom-caption\">We deserve a commitment to slowing climate change \u2013 and real action to prove that commitment. Photo: Shutterstock. <\/p>\n<h3><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Problem<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Climate change isn\u2019t 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 Every day we continue to burn outdated fossil fuels to power our lives, we see the real-world impacts of climate-damaging emissions.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.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Where Things Stand<\/span><\/b><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:279}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Despite the painful and expensive realities of climate change, Maine\u2019s 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\u2019s 2019 law mandating drastic cuts to emissions. The law&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/maine-climate-law-lawsuit\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=maine-climate-law-lawsuit\"target=\"_blank\">Read the full article originally published at www.clf.org.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We deserve a commitment to slowing climate change \u2013 and real action to prove that commitment. Photo: Shutterstock. The Problem\u00a0 Climate change isn\u2019t 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":249650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[361],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v20.0 (Yoast SEO v20.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>It\u2019s Time for Maine to Deliver on Its Climate Law\u00a0 - Republic of Green News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clf.org\/blog\/maine-climate-law-lawsuit\/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=maine-climate-law-lawsuit\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"It\u2019s Time for Maine to Deliver on Its Climate Law\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"We deserve a commitment to slowing climate change \u2013 and real action to prove that commitment. 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