Janet Mills: "We will never back down from taking action to combat climate pollution"
Translation: I will never stop separating you from your hard-earned money.
Gov. Janet Mills Reacts to Trump Administration’s Reversal of Obama-Era Declaration Underpinning Greenhouse Gas Regulation
Libby Palanza
February 13, 2026
On Thursday, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reversed an Obama-era declaration that has served as the basis for the government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Known as the Endangerment Finding, this 2009 declaration states that the “current and projected concentrations” of greenhouse gases “threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations.”
This stemmed from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that greenhouse gases are a category of air pollutant covered by the Clean Air Act, opening the door for the EPA to determine under Section 202(a) if they can reasonably be understood to pose a threat to “public health or welfare.”
President Donald Trump (R) called the move “the single largest deregulatory action in American history, by far” while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin referred to the endangerment finding as “the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach,” according to the Associated Press.
The president went on to say that he was glad to repeal “a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.”
“[The endangerment finding] had no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and it had no basis in law,” President Trump said at a White House ceremony Thursday. “On the contrary, over the generations, fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty all over the world.”
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Comment by Willem Post 1 hour ago
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Combat climate pollution? What kind of idiot statement is that?
The best way to improve Maine is to:
1) get rid of all the corrupt, criminal, useless, government-program-sucking, walk ins/ fly ins, and
2) reduce government headcount by 50%, and
2) have all new buildings be passive solar, and as energy efficient as possible, so they will need a minimum of energy for heating, cooling and electricity
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Comment by Dan McKay 5 hours ago
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Mills has found the hill her political career will die on and will kill the Democrat's power in Maine with her disdain and arrogance.
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Maine Center For Public Interest Reporting – Three Part Series: A CRITICAL LOOK AT MAINE’S WIND ACT
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(excerpts) From Part 1 – On Maine’s Wind Law “Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine if the law’s goals were met." . – Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting, August 2010 https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/From Part 2 – On Wind and Oil Yet using wind energy doesn’t lower dependence on imported foreign oil. That’s because the majority of imported oil in Maine is used for heating and transportation. And switching our dependence from foreign oil to Maine-produced electricity isn’t likely to happen very soon, says Bartlett. “Right now, people can’t switch to electric cars and heating – if they did, we’d be in trouble.” So was one of the fundamental premises of the task force false, or at least misleading?" https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/wind-swept-task-force-set-the-rules/From Part 3 – On Wind-Required New Transmission Lines Finally, the building of enormous, high-voltage transmission lines that the regional electricity system operator says are required to move substantial amounts of wind power to markets south of Maine was never even discussed by the task force – an omission that Mills said will come to haunt the state.“If you try to put 2,500 or 3,000 megawatts in northern or eastern Maine – oh, my god, try to build the transmission!” said Mills. “It’s not just the towers, it’s the lines – that’s when I begin to think that the goal is a little farfetched.” https://www.pinetreewatchdog.org/flaws-in-bill-like-skating-with-dull-skates/
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Hannah Pingree on the Maine expedited wind law
Hannah Pingree - Director of Maine's Office of Innovation and the Future
"Once the committee passed the wind energy bill on to the full House and Senate, lawmakers there didn’t even debate it. They passed it unanimously and with no discussion. House Majority Leader Hannah Pingree, a Democrat from North Haven, says legislators probably didn’t know how many turbines would be constructed in Maine."
https://pinetreewatch.org/wind-power-bandwagon-hits-bumps-in-the-road-3/
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