Letter: Local weather progress being made in Maine

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Heritage industries in Maine — fishing, forestry, farming and tourism — are being broken by local weather change. Trying carefully at nature one sees the modifications: warming oceans with fewer fish, drought affecting forests and farming, ticks decimating our moose herds, and waning winters hurting the ski season.

Though that is scary there’s some progress being made. Our state is main the way in which towards a greater future with Maine’s local weather motion plan. Gov. Janet Mills’ Maine Jobs and Restoration Plan consists of investing $15 million to assist set up warmth pumps and different vitality effectivity enhancements in public buildings.

Maine is probably the most heating oil dependent state within the nation ( in accordance with Mills) so these efforts will make a distinction. For many individuals the simplest environmental change one could make is to maneuver from heating with fossil fuels to a warmth pump. Effectivity Maine provides rebates to assist one do that and offers recommendation. With heating oil lately at $5 a gallon, this warmth pump pays again an funding quickly and one can be shielded from rising oil costs. Warmth pumps additionally operate as air conditioners, which is perhaps life saving because the summers get hotter.