Maine has seen a surge in proposed community solar farms, but they are encountering a serious obstacle: an aging grid that requires expensive upgrades to connect more sources of power to New England homes and businesses, putting the state’s clean energy transition at...
The Transportation Committee has derailed a proposal to require all car and truck drivers to clear their vehicles of snow and ice within 48 hours of a storm, angering some people who have been in serious accidents from the falling debris. The Transportation Committee...
Joined by members of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court and others at the State House, Governor Janet Mills swore in Wayne R. Douglas as Associate Justice of the Maine Supreme Judicial Court. Justice Douglas joins the Supreme Judicial Court after more than two decades...
Paid family leave could be coming to Maine Maine could soon join 13 other states and Washington, D.C. that already have paid family leave with a bill that is being worked on by the Legislature. On Tuesday, a committee that studied paid family leave for the last two...
Consumer-owned utility advocates want to nix takeover unless it saves Mainers money Backers of a quasi-state takeover of Maine’s two biggest utilities were in front of lawmakers Thursday making what seemed like a counterintuitive case. The group wants to put a hurdle...
The Maine State Police have decided to support the latest effort to require car and truck drivers to remove snow and ice from their vehicles after a storm, saying the inclusion of a 48-hour grace period makes the legislation reasonable and enforceable. In past...
Governor Janet Mills announced on Wednesday, $1.6 million in Maine Jobs & Recovery Plan grant funding to support innovative transportation initiatives by four Maine employers to help them grow and retain their workforce. The grants, administered by the Maine...
The Department of Public Safety estimates that about 30 crashes since November were the result of snow or ice falling off one vehicle and landing on another, according to a spokesperson. Past proposals to outlaw driving with snow- or ice-covered vehicles have failed...
On Thursday, the Governor’s Energy Office released the Maine Offshore Wind Roadmap, a stakeholder-driven comprehensive plan that offers strategies for Maine to gather possible economic, energy, and climate benefits from offshore wind, in conjunction with communities,...
On Tuesday, Governor Janet Mills signed the supplemental budget into law. The Legislature approved the measure last week by a vote of 113-21 in the House and 24-5 in the Senate. It earned the unanimous support of the Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs...
The Maine Legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs committee reached a unanimous agreement on a supplemental budget that funds operations through the end of June, the next big item for the committee to tackle will be the governor’s proposed $10.3...
There’s a political debate looming at the State House about whether Maine workers should have guaranteed access to paid time off to care for an ailing family member or themselves after an illness or injury. And looming above state lawmakers’ heads is the prospect – or...
