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Maine: Liheap

March 4, 2009 - 10:01 pm
NEWS FEED: Bangor Daily News

More homes getting heat aid

By Meagan Marston, Special To The News

BANGOR, Maine — According to the Maine State Housing Authority’s latest update, Maine’s Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program has provided home-heating aid to more households statewide since October 2008 than it had by this time last year.

Jo-Ann Choate, assistant director of energy and housing services at MaineHousing, said Wednesday that the number of households served by LIHEAP through Feb. 26 was 52,038, compared with 46,000 households served by that date in 2008.

An estimated 70,000 households are expected to receive funding from LIHEAP this winter.

Despite the numbers this year, however, federal LIHEAP funding is expected to decrease in the future.

“The president has cut funding for the program for next year,” Choate said.

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February 12, 2009 - 02:10 pm
NEWS FEED: MainePolitics.net

LIHEAP Funding Stripped from Stimulus?

By Mike

TPM is reporting that Sen. Susan Collins may have deleted low-income heating assistance funding from the stimulus bill. They note that $1 billion in funding that was present in the House version was not present in either the Senate version or the latest draft of the consensus bill, both of which Collins had a major role in negotiating.

TPM reported yesterday (with an anonymous source) that Collins watered-down and killed an accountability measure in the bill that would have protected federal employees who blew the whistle on government waste.

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Fri, 08/15/2008 - 15:11

Baldacci reveals short-term energy plan, GOP leader disapproves of funding source

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

UPDATED 6 p.m. with comments from Josh Tardy 

Video: Baldacci's remarks

 

[img_assist|nid=2205|title=Talking energy|desc=Gov. John Baldacci discusses energy solutions at a press conference Aug. 15.|link=none|align=left|width=425|height=319]Gov. John Baldacci unveiled an energy plan that he says makes a special session of the Legislature unnecessary.

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Mon, 08/04/2008 - 15:19

Maine Republicans call for special session

By Jessica Alaimo, PolitickerME.com Reporter

Maine Republican leaders are calling for a special legislative session in hopes of increasing funding to the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Senate Minority Leader Carol Weston, R-Montville, and House Minority Leader Josh Tardy, R-Newport, hope to add $10 million to the fund. The money would have otherwise gone to Maine’s Budget Stabilization Fund which currently has $160 million.

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