Dear John,

When it comes to tackling and preparing for the climate crisis, Maine has a large roadblock: Workforce shortages.

Maine needs more trained, skilled workers to:

Weatherize homes and make them more energy efficient;
Install and maintain heat pumps, EV charging stations, and solar panels;
Farm and increase Maine’s food security;
Sustain Maine’s forest products industry, and much more.

And, we need more affordable housing to retain the young Mainers interested in entering these fields and to attract qualified workers from elsewhere.

Representative Ryan Fecteau, Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives, is tackling this issue with LD 2003 — legislation that would increase affordable housing in Maine. The Maine Legislature will vote on this bill soon and it needs your support to move forward.

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LD 2003 also encourages more compact, mixed-use development which will:

Enable people to get where they need to go on foot, bike, or bus and help slash Maine’s emissions;
Conserve the farms, forests, and other natural lands we require to help meet our needs more sustainably today and resiliently in the future;
Free up space for green infrastructure that will make our communities more resilient to the impacts of climate change from flooding to high-heat days; and
Help Mainers be more active and connected to their communities.

Click here to email your State Senator and Representative to ask them to vote YES on LD 2003 to make affordable, sustainable Maine communities a reality.

Thank you for using your voice,

Abbie

Abbie Bradford | she/her

Outreach Manager

Maine Conservation Voters

[email protected]

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