Major administration
consolidation, investments in education, and innovation are under way with Maine's
6.3 billion bipartisan budget
State Legislators and supporters of the
budget celebrated with the Gov. Baldacci during the bi-partisan budget signing. Major
administration consolidation and investments in education and innovation are under way.
Read more at:
Maine Helps to Curb Global Warming —
At events in Maine and nationwide,
participants of the Step-It -Up program posed for photographs while holding signs urging
Congress to cut emissions of carbon dioxide by 80 percent by 2050 last April.
Ashlynn
Harrington of Farmington stepped - up along the curb in front of the Capitol in Augusta as
over seventy students from Colby, Bates, Bowdoin, and UMF posed in the background for
their official photograph with Governor Baldacci that was sent to Washington D.C. More
than 1,300 similar events were held in all 50 states, including 36 in various Maine
communities. It was billed as the largest day of citizen action on global warming in U.S.
history.
Read how Maine
is 'stepping it up' curbing global warming in : RGGI and what breakthrough environmental
programs the state now has with an interview with DEP Commissioner: David Littell
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