Maine State Legislative Actions on Climate Change Related Bills - A Bright Spot

Legislation Status updated on 8/11/2019:  

So here is where we ended up after the 129th Legislative Session ended:

Passed

Bill Number	Title and Link	Topic
LD 906	An Act Concerning Pavement Sealing Products	Air and water quality
LD 216	An Act To Protect Water Quality by Standardizing the Law Concerning Septic Inspection in the Shoreland Zone	Air and water quality
LD 153	An Act To Strengthen Testing for Lead in School Drinking Water	Air and water quality
LD 1706	An Act To Ensure Public Notification of Air Quality Violations	Air and water quality
LD 563	An Act To Help Municipalities Prepare for Sea Level Rise	Climate Change
LD 955	An Act To Prohibit Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Drilling and Exploration	Conservation
LD 1784	An Act To Increase Land Permit by Rule Application Fees	Conservation
LD1789	An Act To Restore the Authority of the Board of Environmental Protection	Conservation
LD 1431	Resolve, To Support Municipal Recycling Programs	Conservation
LD 1509	An Act To Amend the Laws Governing the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code To Ensure It Is Consistent with Current Standards and Applies to Small Municipalities	Efficient Buildings
LD 1543	An Act To Amend the Maine Uniform Building and Energy Code	Efficient Buildings
LD 1766	An Act To Transform Maine's Heat Pump Market To Advance Economic Security and Climate Objectives	Efficient Buildings
LD 614, HP 442,129th Legislature	An Act To Provide Purchase Rebates for Battery Electric Vehicles	Electric Vehicle
LD 1181, HP 855,129th Legislature	An Act To Reduce Electricity Costs through Nonwires Alternatives	Electricity Grid and Supply
LD 1173, SP 359,129th Legislature	An Act To Allow the Direct Sale of Electricity	Electricity Grid and Supply
LD 1844	Resolve, Directing the Public Utilities Commission To Evaluate the Ownership of Maine's Power Delivery Systems	Electricity Grid and Supply
LD 1401, HP 1016,129th Legislature	An Act To Study Transmission Solutions To Enable Renewable Energy Investment in the State	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 1494, SP 457,129th Legislature	An Act To Reform Maine's Renewable Portfolio Standard	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 1282, HP 924,129th Legislature	An Act To Establish a Green New Deal for Maine	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 1464, HP 1071,129th Legislature	An Act To Support Electrification of Certain Technologies for the Benefit of Maine Consumers and Utility Systems and the Environment	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 658, HP 479,129th Legislature	Resolve, To Direct a Plan for Energy Independence for Maine	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 1679	An Act To Promote Clean Energy Jobs and To Establish the Maine Climate Council	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 1830	An Act Establishing the Office of Policy Innovation and the Future	Fossil Free Energy Goals & Planning
LD 398, HP 307,129th Legislature	An Act To Allow for Greater Flexibility in Addressing Energy Efficiency Needs in the State	Greenhouse Gas Trust Fund
LD 289	An Act To Prohibit the Use of Certain Disposable Food Service Containers	Plastics
LD 1532:	An Act To Eliminate Single-use Plastic Carry-out Bags	Plastics
LD 248	An Act To Increase the Handling Fee for Beverage Containers Reimbursed to Redemption Centers	Plastics
LD 1433:	An Act To Protect the Environment and Public Health by Further Reducing Toxic Chemicals in Packaging.	Plastics
LD 1430	An Act To Create Tax Equity among Renewable Energy Investments	Renewabe Energy
LD 994:	A Resolve to Require the Approval by the Public Utilities Commission of a Proposal for a Long-term Contract for Deep-water Offshore Wind Energy	Renewable Energy
LD 91, HP 77,129th Legislature	An Act To Eliminate Gross Metering	Renewable Energy Billing
LD 1757	An Act To Clarify Certain Standards for the Efficiency Maine Trust's Triennial Plan	Renewable Energy Billing
LD 1743	An Act To Reclassify Certain Waters of the State	Rivers
LD 1711:	An Act To Promote Solar Energy Projects and Distributed Generation Resources in Maine	Solar
LD 581, HP 425,129th Legislature	An Act To Direct Electric Utilities To Provide Comparative Usage Data on Customer Billing Statements	Transparent usage billing
LD 1775:	An Act To Protect Sustenance Fishing	Tribal

Carried Over

Title and Link	Topic
An Act To Eliminate the Cap on the Number of Accounts or Meters Designated for Net Energy Billing	Renewable Energy Billing
An Act To Expand Community-based Solar Energy in Maine	Solar
A Bond to Support Investments in Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy in Municipalities and Schools	Renewable Energy
An Act To Allow Microgrids That Are in the Public Interest	Electricity Grid and Supply
An Act To Establish the Wood Energy Investment Program	Wood Energy

One of the bills signed by Governor Mills was emergency bill LD1679, a bill to establish a climate council to create a bold climate action plan to reduce Maine’s greenhouse gas emissions 80% by 2050 and to transition the state to 100% clean energy in the same time frame. 

Here is a link to a summary of details on these bills.