Research snapshot · Environmental · 13 September 2026
Carbon pricing in Maine: 7 towns on the record, the pace easing
This page is a snapshot, cut 13 September 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.
Carbon pricing measures and the municipal resolutions taken for or against them.Our definition of the class.
Snapshot taken 13 September 2026, based on 8 dated municipal records flagged as carbon pricing in Maine, spanning 7 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.
What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.
Source documents 4 of 11 on this page link straight to the town's own record. The rest are available on request. Ask for access.
The story so far
The record starts in Augusta, 22 March 2021. Since then 7 Maine towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Cumberland on 1 April 2026.
The last 90 days put 0 meetings on the record, well down from 1 in the 90 days before.
It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: All Boards, Lands & Conservation Commission and Select Board.
The shape of the movement
Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
Quarter
Meetings
Towns
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025
0
0
Dec 2025 to Feb 2026
1
1
Mar 2026 to May 2026
1
1
Jun 2026 to Sep 2026 (current)
0
0
a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 1 meetings.
The towns on the record7, earliest first
Every Maine town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Companies on this record32 companies, 10 documents
Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
EPSCORBath
GMRIBath
JohnBath
Abigail’s InnCamden
AmeliaBath
Andrew Stuart, d/b/a Barren’s RestaurantCamden
Andrew Stuart, LLC, d/b/a Barren’s RestaurantCamden
Barren’s RestaurantCamden
BCTVBath
BIW (Bath Iron Works)Bath
Citizen Climate Lobby (CCL)Bath
Citizens Climate lobbyOld Town
Climate Action Plan Task ForceKennebunk
Eagle Point Energy CenterOld Town
Fire (Sagadahoc)Bath
GMRI/EPSCOR ProjectBath
Gordons ConstructionOld Town
Habitat for HumanityBath
Harbor Arts and Book WeekendsCamden
HillaryBath
Kennebunk Land TrustKennebunk
Laugh Loud Smile BigCamden
Maine Forest ServiceCumberland
MCOGSBath
Meanwhile, LLC, d/b/a Paper PlaneCamden
MSAD 28 DistrictCamden
Nanny’sOld Town
NFPASanford
Office of State Fire MarshalSanford
Waterville Police Chief Joe MasseyAugusta
And 2 more companies.
The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.
A snapshot of a moving record
Everything above is frozen at 13 September 2026; the topic is not. 4 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.
How we can tell you about it ongoing
We track this topic continuously; this page is one cut of it, taken 13 September 2026. An account turns the snapshot into a working view: every town and every document behind these counts, the thread on each matter as it develops, word of new meetings as they land on the record, your own states and topics side by side, and the data itself when you want it in a table. The towns above are the taste; what each is actually deciding, funding or stalling is the read an account carries.
Also at this scope: Carbon pricing across the country. Counts and dates are computed from the documents on the record; the topic and its definition are ours. This page carries no subscriber content.