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Relaxes provisions governing the replacement and strengthening of seawalls by allowing such activities without obtaining a permit under the State's natural resource protection laws. Seawalls by and alrge accelerate beach erosion and result in damage to fragile coastal ecosystems.
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Would have required that retailers label all genetically altered food to help consumers make better informed choices about the foods they eat.
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Would have required the State to petition the federal Environmental Protection Agency to lift all regulations requiring the use of reformulated gas. When Maine ended its vehicle emission inspection program, the use of reformulated gas became the principal strategy to reduce air pollution from vehicles.
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Requires that all additions to the State's list of endangered and threatened species be approved by the legislature. The result of this legislation is that the listing of endangered and threatened species will now be a political, rather than scientific process.
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Would have required the Maine Public Utilities Commission to review and approve a major retrofit of a nuclear power facility to assure that it is in the public interest. Cuurent law allowed proposals to retrofit the plant to be completed without review
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Would have required the State Board of Pesticides Control to adopt rules to minimize pesticide contamination of groundwater. Bill Sponsor:
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The original bill prohibited the Department of Environmental Protection from enacting environmental standards more stringent than federal standards. The legislation ultimately was bassed into law establishes a legislative review process for state regulations deemed to be stronger than federal rules.
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Would have seriously undermined efforts to protect the environment and public health by requiring state and local governments to compensate landowners for regulations causing a reduction in property value. Instead, the Legislature passed a resolution establishing a commission on property rights and the public health, safety and welfare. That commission Continue...
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Repealed the ban on plastic "six-pack rings" which was scheduled to become effective in 1996.
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Would have created new forestry standards to sginificantly limit clearcutting and overharvesting of Maine's forests.
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A proposed amendment would have allowed small camps on the water's edge to be transformed into large houses.
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Allows incineration of waste to be considered as recycling by towns and regions. This artifically inflates the perentage of the solid waste stream that is being "recycled."
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Jeopardizes the future of Saddleback Mountain, the only remaining unprotected stretch of the Appalachian national Scenic Trail in Maine. This resolution pressures the National Park Service to accept a proposal by the Ski Area considered to be totally inadequate to preserve this section of the trail.
