
The Legislature passed several pro-environment measures this spring: a bond issue for clean water infrastructure, state policy to plan for solar power, and establishment of a commission to study the effects of ocean acidification on Maine’s coastal fisheries. In addition, we put the brakes on a damaging rollback of the state’s metallic mining laws. Several good proposals, however, were passed but vetoed. Like so much of the session, we found ourselves playing defense as often as we were working to advance our policies.