Maine’s Climate Plan: One Year’s Remarkable Results  

Using the Maine Won’t Wait climate plan as a blueprint for action, our state has made significant strides in combating climate change over the last year. Maine communities, organizations and people have stepped up to take strong, common sense actions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, prepare for climate impacts, and help preserve Maine for future generations.

The Maine Won’t Wait One-Year Progress Report, which you can download here, details how our state is tracking toward each of the Plan’s goals.

A few notable highlights:

• Maine is on track to meet its goal of using 80% renewable sources for our electricity by 2030 - the most ambitious target of any New England state. The path to 80% creates opportunities for Rising Renewable Energy Star Jessie Rule and people like her to have good paying jobs they love in Maine, while addressing our state's greenhouse gas emissions. 
• The last year has seen record growth of electric vehicles, public electric vehicle charging stations, and installations of high efficiency heat pump installations in Maine. 
• Mainers across the state stepped up and became climate action leaders. We are inspired by Maine people like Doug Van Gorder, a bus driver who helped bring the state’s first electric school bus to Mount Desert Island and trailblazing teacher Brandon Terrill, who created an interdisciplinary Climate Crisis unit for his College Composition course at Hall-Dale High School.
• Gov. Janet Mills and the Maine Legislature enacted nearly two dozen pieces of legislation aligned with Maine Won’t Wait this year. This includes bans on harmful hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs); adoption of sea level rise projections, appliance efficiency standards, and among the first targets for clean energy battery storage in the U.S. 

We are proud of our Maine’s progress. And we are more committed than ever to act with urgency to avert catastrophic risks to our state’s environment, heritage and future.