PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 12, 2024
The Legislature’s two top Democrats and a group of minority Republicans want to take control of Maine’s electric vehicle rules. A bill proposed Tuesday would give lawmakers, not a citizen board, the final say on clean car standards meant to curtail vehicle tailpipe emissions, a major source of greenhouse gas emissions. Jack Shapiro, climate and clean energy director at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, criticized the new legislation, saying it would overturn consideration of what he called a ‘clean car standard.’”