12/15/07 - The facts on energy reform (PPH)... co-authored by Jon.
10/16/2007 - Hear Jon on WGAN radio regarding licensing of contractors.
5/9/07 - Jon introduces bill to reinforce free speech rights in malls. Link
1/14/07 - Jon releases legislative report and journal. Read it here.
11/9/06 - Jon has won the race for House District #118!
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Working to Keep Maine Safe and Healthy
Jon has worked with others and led efforts that have helped to keep
Maine a special place to live, work, and visit. Below, a timeline
of recent successes reducing threats posed by toxic chemicals in Maine.
1998-02
-Jon is lead attorney in lawsuits brought against oil and chemical
companies for widespread contamination of groundwater by the gasoline
additive MTBE. These cases give momentum to the effort to ban MTBE.
Maine drops out of the program that requires MTBE use.
2003
-Jon works on implementation and defense of a first-in-the-nation
law to require automobile manufacturers to pay for removal of
mercury-containing switches before cars are scrapped.
2003
-Jon helps lobby for passage of legislation banning the sale of
arsenic-treated wood used in playgrounds and decks. Maine is the
first state to do so.
-Jon leads negotiations with the Maine dental association that
results in enactment of legislation to require dental offices to
install amalgam separators that collect 98% of mercury from dental
amalgam fillings in wastewater.
-Jon initiates collaboration with Wild Oats natural food stores chain,
which becomes the first national chain to post advisories of mercury
levels in fish in all (100) of its stores.
2004
-Jon helps lobby for passage of a law that bans the sale of products
containing certain brominated flame retardants (known as “penta”
and “octa” “PBDEs”) in consumer products and requires phase out “deca“
PBDE by 2008 if safer alternatives are available. California is the
only other state to do this.
-Jon leads the advocacy team that gains passage of a law that requires
TV and computer manufacturers to take responsibility for the recovery
and recycling of their units at end-of life (addressing a growing toxic
(lead, mercury, PBDEs, etc.) hazard.)
-After investigating potential impacts, Jon helps to build support
for Maine’s first commercial wind power site to be built at Mars
Hill in Northern Maine.
2005
-Jon works on a lawsuit brought by national environmental and Native
American plaintiffs against the EPA over dangerously lax rules for
power plant mercury emissions.
-Jon helps to gain adoption of rules for low greenhouse gas emission
cars to be sold in Maine. Because of fuel cost savings these cars
cost Maine consumers less than standard vehicles.
2006
-E-waste law goes into effect with opening of manufacturer funded
consolidation centers. Mainers now drop of old TVs and computers
at little or no cost. Shipping and safe recycling is paid for by
the manufacturers.
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