The state Department of Environmental Protection announced that it is 91 percent of the way toward meeting its carbon neutrality target<b> </b>by 2045. But the state still has a way to go before reaching its other climate goals.
Maine also has met the first of its four climate goals by reducing gross greenhouse gas emissions by 30% from 1990 levels, well ahead of its 10% goal by 2020, but it has a long way to go meet a 45% cut by 2030.
The gulf is warming 3 times faster than the global average and rising about 2.5 times faster in recent years than it has over the last century, according to the Maine Climate Council.
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