Vincent Nolette
@vxnolette.bsky.social
Fellow @ Sabin Center for Climate Change Law. Views are my own.
These laws are most prominent in red states, but blue states aren't immune, especially when the laws are paired with "energy choice" language. See the recently passed ban-on-gas bans in Maine for ex., a former failed bill now successful bc of energy price fears: mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/11/h...
How concerns about energy costs paved way for a prohibition on towns banning heating fuel sources • Maine Morning Star
LD 556, which prohibits municipalities from banning a particular energy source. Gov. Janet Mills signed it into law on July 1. The Republican-sponsored legislation divided members of Mills’ own party ...
mainemorningstar.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
These laws are most prominent in red states, but blue states aren't immune, especially when the laws are paired with "energy choice" language. See the recently passed ban-on-gas bans in Maine for ex., a former failed bill now successful bc of energy price fears: mainemorningstar.com/2025/08/11/h...
In it, I construct a taxonomy of state laws that restrict or prohibit local climate action, and argue that they function as tools of fossil fuel entrenchment, posing serious barriers to a just transition and reshaping federalism.
August 17, 2025 at 10:45 PM
In it, I construct a taxonomy of state laws that restrict or prohibit local climate action, and argue that they function as tools of fossil fuel entrenchment, posing serious barriers to a just transition and reshaping federalism.