To ensure the health and prosperity of all Mainers, we need to address our growing climate crisis and better protect Maine’s extremely valuable environment and natural resources. With more than a decade of hands-on climate and environmental protection experience, David will, as Maine’s Senator, support efforts to:

•  Develop and implement an aggressive national, science-based climate action plan that includes strict greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caps; ambitious GHG sequestration and "draw down" goals and actions; expanded clean energy, clean transportation, and energy efficiency initiatives; smarter development and land use regulations; greener appliance and building construction standards; and increased funding to mitigate the growing impacts of climate change.

• Enact more stringent air and water quality standards and regulations.

• Require courts to defer to federal agencies when rules they make are reasonable and enabling laws are ambiguous.

• Preserve more places of natural beauty and ecological importance.

• Enact smarter, more sustainable development laws and regulations.

• Develop and implement a national Zero Waste plan to reduce, reuse, or eliminate hazardous and solid waste in the U.S.

• Enact stricter land and water conservation laws and regulations.