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Bill inspired by South Portland fuel tank emissions earns committee endorsement

Bill inspired by South Portland fuel tank emissions earns committee’s endorsement The bill would require installation of monitoring stations near tanks and the collection of emissions caused while loading fuel into tanker trucks. Share Petroleum tank farms in Maine would have to continuously monitor emissions and take other steps to reduce off-gassing from aboveground tanks under a bill that received a committee endorsement on Monday. The bill is a response to concerns in South Portland about noxious odors and air pollution emanating from massive tanks located along the city’s waterfront in close proximity to schools, residential neighborhoods and businesses. Although those concerns date back decades, momentum has built since 2019 to tighten monitoring and reporting of emissions from petroleum tanks amid a high-profile dispute between state and federal regulators over emissions levels.

As summer approaches, more coastal Maine communities regulating short-term rentals

As summer approaches, more coastal Maine communities regulating short-term rentals Meanwhile, the Legislature weighs competing bills on the practice, including one that would levy fees on such rentals and another that would would bar cities and towns from passing rules prohibiting them. Share Towns and cities throughout coastal Maine are taking steps to regulate or rein in short-term rentals ahead of what looks to be a busy summer tourism season. Officials in Freeport last week became the latest to pass a local ordinance imposing registration, occupancy limits and fees on property owners who rent out homes or rooms on such popular platforms as Airbnb or Vrbo. Earlier in April, Cape Elizabeth councilors created a permitting system for short-term rentals that requires owners to use homes they are renting out as their primary residence in a move aimed at preventing out-of-town owners from operating their properties as vacation rentals.

Rep Evangelos to present An Act To Eliminate Qualified Immunity for Police Officers before legislative committee

Thursday: April 29, 2021,  9 a.m. PUBLIC HEARING  L.D. 793 An Act To Include as a Factor in Sentencing the Selection of a Victim Based on the Victim s Employment as a Law Enforcement Officer  L.D. 908 An Act To Protect Maine Residents and Organizations from Unreasonable and Illegal Surveillance, Monitoring or Tracking  L.D. 214 An Act To Eliminate Qualified Immunity for Police Officers  L.D. 1416 An Act To Limit Qualified Immunity of Law Enforcement Officers in Maine Civil Rights Act Claims  1 p.m. WORK SESSION L.D. 54 An Act To Amend the Laws Governing Post-conviction Review in Order To Facilitate the Fair Hearing of All Newly Discovered Evidence

Lawmakers pledge aggressive action to address Maine s affordable housing, eviction crisis

Lawmakers pledge aggressive action to address Maine s affordable housing, eviction crisis
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