Maine Public Broadcasting aired a feature on Eliot Cutler’s plan to eliminate the Board of Environmental Protection. Cutler said that the way that Maine’s environmental regulations are enforced needs to be fixed in a way that protects the environment and incourages investment:
“Someone who wants to build or do something in the state of Maine usually has to get a permit or a license from the Department of Environmental Protection; and they can go through the entire process and get the license and permit and then someone who doesn’t like the result can petition a citizen board to take over the matter, go all the way back to square one or go off the tracks, It stands like a red light at the gateway to the state of Maine and it keeps out investment. We don’t need to have it and I want to get rid of it.”
You can read a transcript of the piece here.