New Maine law directs millions of dollars to climate resilience

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire
Published April 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM EDT

A new law directs tens of millions of dollars to help Maine communities prepare for future storms made more extreme by climate change.

Governor Janet Mills signed the bipartisan bill into law Tuesday after it received overwhelming support from lawmakers.

The measure "will allow Maine communities, homeowners, businesses, emergency response leaders and others to prepare for the extreme weather events of the future and make Maine a safer place to live in the process," the Governor said.

Under the law, homeowners will have access to a $15 million grant fund for improvements to protect against severe weather damage and to lower insurance costs.

The law also directs $10 million for the state's required match to federal disaster relief funds.

It provides funding for a revolving loan fund for infrastructure rebuilding and money to update communications and early warning systems at the Maine Emergency Management Agency.

And it will spend $9 million to begin a Flood Ready Maine program to improve and update flood models, maps and management. The program will be housed in a newly-created State Resilience Office, itself a branch of the recently enacted Maine Office of Community Affairs.

Continue reading at https://www.mainepublic.org/climate/2025-04-22/new-maine-law-direct...

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Comment by arthur qwenk yesterday

More wasted taxpayer graft directed  money, to be fed to self serving politicians and significant others.

Maine is way over the hill now, with its closest competitor to  this insanity being California. Track the politicians that try to dip their subsidy sticky  hands into the pot. 5 percent of the money may make  to the public. The climate  graft laden BS bureaucracy in Maine is way over the hill on this one.

 

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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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