PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 2, 2021
Gov. Janet Mills has issued an executive order instructing state agencies to develop a “clean transportation roadmap” to achieve the state’s goal of increasing the number of electric vehicles on the road in Maine by 2030. The plan, to be drafted by the Governor’s Energy Office and the Governor’s Office of Policy Innovation and the Future, is due on Mills’ desk by Dec. 30. Reducing emissions from transportation – the source of more than half of all greenhouse gas emissions in Maine – is a key element of Maine’s overall effort to curb emissions by at least 45 percent by 2030. The state’s climate action plan, called Maine Won’t Wait, estimates the state needs 219,000 light-duty electric vehicles on the road by 2030 to meet its emissions targets.