Background
The Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will hold a Public Hearing on Monday, February 24, 2025 at 11:00 AM at 📍 Cross Building, Room 216, 111 Sewall St., Augusta, to discuss LD 495, "An Act to Require Rules Designed to Reduce Climate Change to Include Estimates of the Reduction in Adverse Climate Effects and of the Cost to Consumers."
If you want to read LD 495 click here: legislature.maine.gov/legis/bills/di
If you pick through the left side menu, you can find all kinds of good info! In lieu of personally testifying in support of this bill, you may testify via Zoom, or by online testimony using the following link: mainelegislature.org/testimony/ Do this prior to the public hearing.
See below for EVERYTHING you're gonna need to get this done, including testimony!
🔹 Steps to submit testimony online:
1️⃣ Click: "Public Hearing".
2️⃣ Choose a committee: "Environment and Natural Resources" - using the drop-down menu.
3️⃣ Choose date: February 24, 2025, 11:00 AM - using the drop-down menu.
4️⃣ Click: LD 495
5️⃣ Enter your testimony in the box (or click the checkbox if you want to testify via Zoom).
6️⃣ Complete your contact information.
7️⃣ Click: "I'm not a robot"
8️⃣ Click: "Submit/Register".
To see submitted testimonies to get other wording ideas, visit: legislature.maine.gov/ctl/ENR/02-24- and click on the bill number.
Action Time-Window
⚠️ Please consider taking action by February 24, 2025.
Letter from the Community
The below is the letter a community member drafted himself. Feel free to use it, something of your own, or something as simple as "I support LD 495, and "it ought to pass." To get other wording ideas, as online testimony is submitted for this bill, you can see it here: legislature.maine.gov/ctl/ENR/02-24- after clicking on the bill number.
I support LD 495 “An Act to Require Rules Designed to Reduce Climate Change to Include Estimates of the Reduction in Adverse Climate Effects and of the Cost to Consumers.”
As I understand it, this bill requires the Department of Environmental Protection, when adopting rules designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, to issue an estimate of the level of adverse effects on the climate that will be prevented by the reduction in emissions and the costs associated with the reduction in emissions that will be borne by consumers.
This is common sense legislation. As taxpayers, we want to know the benefits and costs when unelected bureaucrats in the Department of Environmental Protection look at adopting rules designed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. In other words, transparency.
Again, I support LD 495 “An Act to Require Rules Designed to Reduce Climate Change to Include Estimates of the Reduction in Adverse Climate Effects and of the Cost to Consumers”, and it “ought to pass.”
Credit
Credit for the above goes to our community member Danny (@DannyEmerson61) from the South Berwick Republican Committee (@BerwickSouth).
Disclaimer
A community member has shared this personal template for those who wish to express their views on LD 495. This template is not an official PTP position, and using it is entirely up to you. Pine Tree Patriots encourages civic participation but does not endorse or support specific actions or policies. Please remember this is an individual initiative.
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