BANGOR DAILY NEWS • April 22, 2024
Three environmental groups have sued Maine over allegedly failing to act on climate change. That comes as the state marks Earth Day and after a winter that saw intense storms batter the state from end to end. The lawsuit, which the Conservation Law Foundation, Maine Youth Action and Sierra Club filed against the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, alleges that the state is failing to act on a 2019 statutory goal to reduce carbon emissions by 45 percent of 1990 levels by 2030 and 80 percent by 2050.