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Requires wine cooler containers be returnable under the Maine Bottle Bill
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Amended to $35,000,000 was sent to referendum to authorize expenditure for wild land.
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Instituted legal protection for residential users of groundwater in the event of removal or contamination. Also restricted landfills near aquifers and tigthened regulations concerning underground oil storage tanks
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Would have dissolved the Office of En Resources, dividing responsibilities between other departments
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Authorized the expansion of the Maine Turnpike south of Portland. Environmental ramifications of the expansion were not taken into account
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Would have significantly reduced the registration fee for commercial operators of underground oil storage tanks. This would have reduced funds available for the Groundwater Oil Clean-Up fund annually.
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Expanded the sitting requirement for landfills to further protect groundwater from contamination. It also involved residents of unorganized territories in solid waste decisions.
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Amended in the Senate to weaken the provisions of the Act by applying the new standard only to multi-family structures. The motion to indefinitely postpone was defeated in the house and thus was passed into law.
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Designed to discourage speculation in land by imposing a progresssive rate tax on capital gains from rapid turnover land sales.
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Would have provided local governments with a tool for preservation of open space areas and critical habitats
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This substantially amended bill required State review of subdivisions between 40-500 acres in extent, only within the shoreland zone.
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Reverses provisions which made Division Director positions at DEP political appointments. Governor didn't sign, opening positions to political
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Required that those on farm property be notified of pesticides used within the past 30 days and of their possible impacts.
