MORNING SENTINEL • March 12, 2021
Residents and municipal officials at annual Town Meeting and other venues across Maine this year can expect to hear about climate change from a group seeking their support for a carbon fee and dividend program they say will help the state weather the risks related to climate change. Representatives of the nonprofit group Citizens’ Climate Lobby have been attending meetings to ask town residents and officials to back resolutions supporting a state and national proposal to charge fees on fossil fuel sales and distribute that money equally among residents. Some towns have backed the resolution, and some have not.