The Maine Legislature has began up the 2023-24 session, and we’re all keen and able to go! Constituents in my district spoke with me in the course of the reelection marketing campaign this previous fall that they needed me to proceed to deal with combating local weather change.
That could be a logical request for residents of a city with 5 attractive seashores, the biggest salt-water marsh within the state, and quite a few delicate wetlands, a lot of which conserved by our native Land Belief.
I’m happy to report that the brand new speaker of the Home, Rachael Talbot-Ross, the primary black girl ever to serve on this place, has named me to the Power, Utilities and Expertise Committee.
That’s the committee that offers with substantial issues involving renewable electrical energy improvement, the Public Utilities Fee and in the end our fossil gas use within the state.
This can be a tremendously sturdy space of curiosity for me, as a result of fossil gas emissions are the foundation explanation for local weather change and the way we transition to renewable electrical energy and sustainable power consumption are the problems our political leaders should take accountability for if we’re critical about addressing the local weather disaster.
I will probably be energetic in some ways on the local weather change concern this yr. I’ll proceed to encourage the event of different fuels. I’ll proceed to combat to set pointers which can be practical and essential for our state on local weather change and the way we steadiness prices to customers with utility charges, how we spend money on renewable power whereas balancing points like protected land for farmers and sealife for lobstermen. I may even proceed to take a look at all the prices that local weather change brings negatively to the state of Maine, and can combat for a good system of cost of these prices and remediation measures. Local weather change is a nationwide and international disaster, and whereas Maine can and should be a frontrunner to discovering equitable transition and mitigation measures, we can’t be tasked with bearing the immense burdens alone.
As regular, I welcome your enter, concepts, recommendations and questions. If there’s any concern you suppose that I ought to deal with, please be happy to let me know.
My contact data is: P.O. Field 1, Scarborough, ME 04070; [email protected]; and (207) 450-0765.
I additionally would love to listen to from you on how issues are getting into your life, and what we will do to make Scarborough a greater place to dwell. Glad new yr to you and your family members!
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