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LD 2266 - Offshore Wind Jobs

(2024)

An Act Regarding Offshore Wind Terminals Located in Coastal Sand Dune Systems

LD 2266 bill text Maine AFL-CIO Supported

Sponsored by Representative Walter Runte

What is the bill?

Unions in Maine have been developing a vision to address accelerating climate change and deepening inequality by passing legislation to support thousands of new union jobs in the clean energy sector. Offshore wind is essential to tackle climate change, while bringing good-paying union jobs to lift up Midcoast communities that have been hit hard by decades of factory closures. LD 2266 will allow the permitting process to move forward on an offshore wind port in the multi-year permitting process that is currently underway. This bill was enacted in both the House and Senate and language from the bill was included in the supplemental state budget, which became law.

What happened?

Enacted into Law (Passed by the Legislature, Funded in LD 2214)

Votes

Senate

21 Pro-labor 13 Anti-labor

House

77 Pro-labor 65 Anti-labor