State Representative Brian Hubbell: Maine House District 135, 2012-2020
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine
Yesterday at the Augusta Civic Center, my working group reported to the Climate Council on the current effects of climate change in Maine in these areas:
I was privileged to work with a great group …
Credit: Robbie Andrew, CICERO Center for International Climate Research
http://folk.uio.no/roberan/GCB2019.shtml …
But the easiest reductions have been realized.
To achieve the state’s ten-year and thirty-year goals, transportation and heating must be powered by clean energy.…
Prosperity no longer correlates to consumption of fossil fuels.
Other states are doing this too — but Maine leads in this area.
https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-us-states-decoupling-economic-growth-emissions …
AUGUSTA – Maine could be getting closer to electric ferry service if a …
…Mitigating and adapting to the impacts of climate change, and increasing renewable energy generation within the state, are priorities of Governor Mills’ Administration. Working together with the Legislature, Maine has made significant progress moving forward on these issues. Reducing the State’s dependence on fossil fuels and transitioning to a more diverse portfolio of clean energy
“…I’m not opposed to using some general fund dollars to improve our infrastructure, boost our economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
In her State of the State address, Governor Mills challenged the legislature to solve the state’s transportation funding gap.
Joining that challenge, I welcome discussion of any new transportation funding models which incentivize more …
“…I’m not opposed to using some general fund dollars to improve our infrastructure, boost our economy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”
In her State of the State address, Governor Mills challenged the legislature to solve the state’s transportation funding gap.
Joining that challenge, I welcome discussion of any new transportation funding models which incentivize more …
…In a competition for money available from the Volkswagen settlement, in which the carmaker agreed to pay $14.7 billion nationally toward pollution mitigation to settle an emissions-cheating scandal, Mount Desert Island High School won $280,000 to offset most of the cost of a new electric bus.
…“…Hubbell said a lot of the pressure that schools are experiencing is spillover from societal problems that communities all over the state are dealing with.
“There are a lot of areas … where the state really has failed in relation to early education services, access to special services, all of the social stresses of which
Here is what MDOT currently plans for road paving, repairs, engineering, and planning for the upcoming construction season:
…Building on the previous Governor’s support for heat pumps, with this initiative Maine continues to lead on the path of beneficial electrification and decarbonization.
Broad majority support for renewable energy and climate policy exists even in the more conservative half of Maine. Check it out:
Public Opinion on Climate Change, 2019, Yale Program on Climate Change Communication
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1 January 2020
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
Before I return full-time next week to the Legislature’s second session, I want to recap my goals for this winter and spring.
I intend to follow through with some of the successful work of the first session, specifically related to preparing to triple the state’s renewable energy generating …
