Governor Janet Mills today notified the Maine Legislature that she has vetoed L.D. 307, An Act to Establish the Maine Data Center Coordination Council and Place a Temporary Limitation on Certain Data Centers.
In her letter, the Governor said she supports a temporary moratorium on data center projects, and would have signed LD 307 if it included an exemption for a project now underway at the former Androscoggin Mill in Jay.
Grant program in supplemental budget will expand Maine's free school meals program for pre-K students
Governor Janet Mills and Senate President Mattie Daughtry today visited the Family Focus Early Learning Center in Brunswick to celebrate a provision of the supplemental budget that will enable Maine's nation-leading free school meals program to serve more pre-K students across the state.
Governor Janet Mills today issued the following statement in recognition of Earth Day:
"During the first Earth Day gathering fifty-six years ago, Maine Senator Ed Muskie called for 'an environmental revolution.' He told the crowd of 30,000 to remember that 'we are not powerless to accomplish this change, but we are powerless as a people if we wait for someone else to do it for us.'"