Maine: Make Polluters Pay!
Governor Mills and Maine Legislators
Climate change has already caused extraordinary harm in Maine. Maine taxpayers should not be the ones paying for the costs of extreme weather. A Climate Superfund bill in Maine would require fossil fuel companies to provide dedicated funding to prepare for and recover from intensifying climate disasters.
This legislation offers a solution that will help alleviate those damages while protecting Maine consumers.
Sign this action to support the bill!
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In Maine, we work hard, and we know that if you make a mess, you clean it up. Well, Big Oil — an elite club of global mega corporations that make more than one hundred BILLION dollars in profit a year — has caused millions of dollars of damage to the state of Maine through floods, droughts, and extreme storms that have all been made worse by climate change. Those same corporations haven't spent a dime to help us clean up their mess. In last winter's storms alone, Maine faced over $90 million in damage to our public infrastructure! Right now, everyday Mainers are on the hook for that bill.
It's time that the world's biggest fossil fuel polluters who caused the problem pick up the tab instead of Maine taxpayers — that's why I urge you to support the Make Polluters Pay Act. In America, when a company spills toxic waste, it is their responsibility to clean it up, not ours.
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