Hannah Pingree: Maine will use $3 million federal "award" to think about climate plans

EPA awards Maine $3 million in funds to cut pollution that contributes to climate change
Maine Public | By Murray Carpenter


The EPA on Monday announced that Maine will receive $3 million in funding from the Inflation Reduction Act for cutting pollution that contributes to climate change.

Hannah Pingree, director of the Governor's Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, said Maine will use the funding to update the Maine Won't Wait climate plan.

"Maine will spend time thinking about how to go deeper on its climate plans," Pingree said. "Whether it's reducing emission in transportation or in our buildings, we'll work on those plans, and then those plans will allow us to apply for implementation funds."

Later this year, EPA will announce a competition for $4.6 billion in funding to implement the initiatives included in this and similar plans nationwide.

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Comment by Richard McDonald/Saving Maine on April 4, 2023 at 11:31am

This is their entire economic development strategy - government grift. 

Comment by arthur qwenk on April 4, 2023 at 9:55am

When you have left wing stooges as a majority in the legislature, being pigs at the federal subsidy trough is all they can produce for the state, other than a few other subsidized hand outs as well.

 

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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."

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