State Representative Brian Hubbell: Maine House District 135, 2012-2020
Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, and Lamoine
Great launch of the Maine Climate Council yesterday by the Governor’s policy leaders
I know first-hand that the science advisory group is eager to begin this work in the next weeks.
This morning I’m psyched to join youth leader Ania Wright and my neighbor Ken Colburn at the inaugural meeting of the Maine Climate Council to which I am appointed as legislative representative to the Scientific and Technical working group.
Along with several others on the Council and its working groups, I am just stepping …
“…Maine won’t wait. Will you?”
Thank you, Governor Janet Mills!
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“…the existential question that is before us is: When is the prospect of imminent disaster sufficient to drive collective change? At what point are we moved to real action?
“From where I sit in the arena of public policy making, I want to report to you — with some confidence — that moment is right …
Youth voices are moving climate and energy policy — both regionally by example and statewide through effective advocacy. This is how change happens.
“…Students have been active in social and political causes before.
“But their recent level of engagement in the issue of climate change is something special, state Rep. Brian Hubbell, said at the celebration of the completion of the solar energy project at Mount Desert Island High School last Wednesday.
“This feels different … to have …
On Friday, my colleagues on the Appropriations Committee and I got to visit this program outside of Stratton, talk with the students, and observe their remarkable skills with mechanized logging operations.
The relatively modest state investment in this partnership between the Maine Community College System and the Professional Logging Contractors of Maine appears to be …