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Maine Gov. Janet Mills on the state's use of federal funding to combat climate change

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe speaks with Maine Gov. Janet Mills about the state's implementation of rebates for heat pumps to lower carbon emissions.
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Maine governor outlines new climate goals
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Maine Gov. Janet Mills outlines new climate goals, backs housing first, pledges access to Narcan in budget address

Gov. Janet Mills delivered the state of the budget address Tuesday night, outlining the details of her spending plan while also announcing new initiatives to combat the climate and drug crises and pledging to support a housing first model amid widespread affordability issues in Maine.

Maine will make companies pay for recycling. Here’s how it works.
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Maine will make companies pay for recycling. Here’s how it works.

The law aims to take the cost burden of recycling away from taxpayers. One environmental advocate said the change could be “transformative.”
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Maine will make companies pay for recycling. Here's how it works
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Maine will make companies pay for recycling. Here's how it works

The law aims to take the cost burden of recycling away from taxpayers. One environmental advocate said the change could be “transformative.”
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Maine becomes first state to shift costs of recycling from taxpayers to companies

Maine becomes first state to shift costs of recycling from taxpayers to companies

The program will charge large packaging producers for collecting and recycling cardboard boxes, plastic containers and other packaging.
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Maine unlikely to alter goals to address climate change in light of new U.N. report
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Maine unlikely to alter goals to address climate change in light of new U.N. report

Maine Gov. Janet Mills says a new report from the United Nations that is calling for unprecedented cuts in greenhouse gas emissions is unlikely to change the state's own climate change goals.

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Maine is in the midst of an environmental revolution
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Maine is in the midst of an environmental revolution

As governor, Paul LePage spent eight years dismantling Maine’s environmental policies. Gov. Janet Mills is on a mission to restore them.
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Trump-backed plan seeks to overturn Biden's climate policies

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