Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday the latest round of grants awarded through the state’s Community Resilience Partnership, which since its inception in December 2021 has awarded nearly $6.1 million in grants to companies , local governments and nonprofits under the banner of climate change.
This round of grants awards $2.4 million to 53 communities across Maine, including the Penobscot Nation, Long Island, Camden, and Fryeburg.
“Maine’s work to address climate change is reducing costs for Maine people, creating new jobs and career opportunities, strengthening our communities, and protecting our precious environment,” Gov. Mills said in a Friday press release.
Mills’ climate change policies include the controversial Net Energy Billing (NEB) changes in 2019 which subsidized community solar installations by increasing electricity bills for Maine resident.
Electricity prices in Maine are the 6th highest in the country.
“I am proud that Maine people have followed the bold vision we outlined in our climate action plan, Maine Won’t Wait, to transition to clean energy and to ensure that their communities can withstand the effects of climate change,” Mills said.
The Governor’s announcement was made Friday at a meeting of the Maine Climate Council, a 39-member assembly of scientists, industry leaders, and bipartisan local and state officials that Mills created in 2019.
The Maine Climate Council is set to deliver an updated four-year climate action plan by December 2024 — supported in part by a $3 million grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that came as part of President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
“Through the Community Resilience Partnership, 174 communities across Maine are working to transition to clean energy, strengthen their critical infrastructure to withstand the impacts of climate change, and plan for future climate investments and actions based on local priorities,” said Hannah Pingree and Melanie Loyzim, co-chairs of the Maine Climate Council.
“We are grateful for the efforts of our community and regional partners on this program and look forward to continuing to advance local and regional climate solutions with them into the future,” they added.
Earlier this year, Mills committed to transitioning Maine to 100 percent renewable energy by 2040.
A full list of the grants recipients and projects can be found here.
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Do Maine people like getting hosed? Well, they must! Climate change is such a scam and the only ones who benefit are the so-called elites while working folks get crushed.
…could I get a couple hundred thousand to study why the sun always has to rise in the east!? If we could get it to rise in the west, it might have a dramatic effect on this climate change phenomenon and we may be able to reverse the ills man has done to our planet!
My electricity bill has gone up 110% in the las two years, but I think I finally got it figured out. Steam generator burning tires for fuel. Removing tires from landfills should make the eco drones happy and maybe even qualify for a grant from the state.
Mills likes to give away taxpayer money for a problem that doesn’t exist to entities that don’t need it. Makes sense of you’re a democrat.
It’s just another shenanigan to buy votes. It sucks more and more into the hoax. People are getting exactly what they voted for. Mills statement of were saving people money..Exactly where are people saving money?. Even with subsidies solar panels it can take 20-30 years to pay off and then you have to replace the panels and find a way to safely dispose of the old ones at the 20 year lifespan.
Politically it’s brilliant. Teach the kiddies in school about climate change and how it’s going to destroy their future. Then encourage participation in communities with hard cash. You’re swinging more to vote on the side of the climate change agenda.
Who finances this 2.4 million? Do you realize that in the last 90 days our Cash cow Federal government went another 1,000,000,000,000 in debt. That’s One Trillion in 90 days. By the way, China, India and Bangladesh are still building more coal fired power plants. Actual science does not support the climate emergency that we are all being fed. Wake up people….
Who is investigating all Insurance companies,Banks,and their ties to ESG?
I know I am ,but I sure hope many others are as well? Question with boldness!
My advice to everyone out there – Is – too “Not” be silent about this, and do your own investigating/or you are doing nothing – Is that understood?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNUpcfBOsos
1609 scientists and informed professionals signed the world climate declaration, stating that there is NO climate emergency! Where is this in the news and why have our ignorant politicians not found this information. We do have climate change of course – underwater volcanoes cause a lot of moisture to get spewed into the atmosphere, which in turn affects our atmosphere. The changes in the sun’s surface changes our climate and there are more naturally occurring happenings that change climate. Since 1979, the temperature of the earth increased by 0.23 degrees F every decade. This is certainly NO emergency! The earth has warmed about 2 degrees since the little ice age in 1850. In other decades we will probably see the temperature decrease as it has in the past – Climate change has been made to be political, mostly by the UN and then by people like Gore that want to be able to control us. Politicians and those others in power do not want to hear the real scientific answers, just the political answers that will benefit them personally. I hope there are many others out there that are as frustrated and P’d off as I am – Now what do we do about it?