As Maine Went, by Mike Tipping: on Environment


Paul LePage: Outsourced regulatory decisions to make the less harmful

As a candidate, LePage stuck mostly to speaking in general terms about making government more business friendly and getting rid of un-specified harmful regulations. Once he became governor, however, he addressed his lack of specificity by outsourcing the work of selecting which environmental regulations should be targeted to a group of people who had plenty of ideas: corporate lobbyists.
Source: As Maine Went, by Mike Tipping, p. 70 Jul 14, 2014

Paul LePage: FactCheck: Maine EPA never counted buffaloes nor black flies

At the Kennebec County Republican Party Caucus in March 2010, Gubernatorial candidate Paul LePage told a horrifying story of anti-business overreach by Maine's Department of Environmental Protection. "In 1992 I was running a power plant in Eastern Maine, the DEP comes up and says 'we would like to do a study'," said LePage, speaking about one of his consulting jobs. "So it cost us $50,000 and June, July, and August to count all the buffaloes in Maine. Lo and behold we found one, at the Acadia Zoo. The next spring they came up & said, 'Now that you've been so successful with the buffalo, we'd like you to count the black flies." It was a well-practiced performance (far from the first time LePage had shared his buffalo story). The only problem with the story, as with many of LePage's anecdotes, is that it never happened. The DEP had ordered no such studies, or any study of buffalo or black flies ever. There weren't any mandatory buffalo studies, so what change was he actually proposing?
Source: FactCheck 2010 in "As Maine Went," by Mike Tipping, p. 69-70 Mar 1, 2010

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    Governor Paul LePage and the Tea Party Takeover of Maine
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