The Transportation Working Group will evaluate and recommend short- and long-term mitigation strategies to reduce gross and net annual greenhouse gas emissions from Maine's transportation sector, as well as evaluate and recommend short- and long-term strategies and actions for adaptation and resiliency to climate change. For meeting details, agendas, minutes, and handouts, please visit our meeting calendar and search for this working group.

Working Group Members

Co-chairs

  • Jeff Crawford, Department of Environmental Protection
  • Joyce Taylor, Maine Department of Transportation

Members

Kendra Amaral, Town of Kittery 

Daniel Ankeles, Maine State Legislature 

Tom Brown, Maine Automobile Dealers Association 

Sandy Buchanan, Western Maine Transportation Services, Inc. 

Dan Burgess, Governor's Energy Office 

Josh Caldwell, Natural Resources Council of Maine 

Taylor Colbeth, University of Southern Maine

Dana Doran, Professional Logging Contractors of Maine 

Francis Eanes, Maine Labor Climate Council, AFL 

Bradlee Farrin, Maine State Legislature 

Eric Feigenbaum, Versant Power 

Elizabeth Frazier, Pierce Atwood/Alliance for Automotive Innovation 

Katherine Freund, ITN America 

Maria Fuentes, Maine Better Transportation Association 

Judy Gates, HNTB 

Karina Graeter, Southern Maine Planning and Development Commission 

Emily Green, Conservation Law Foundation 

Chad Heid, BSOOB Transit 

Jay Kamm, Northern Maine Development Commission 

Ben Lake, VEIC 

Matt Marks, Associated General Contractors of Maine 

Jess Maurer, Maine Council on Aging 

Peter Merfeld, Maine Turnpike Authority 

Sara Mills-Knapp, Greater Portland Council of Governments 

David Morris, Maine Department of Administrative and Financial Services 

Timothy Nangle, Maine State Legislature

Marcel Ntagora, Greater Portland Council of Governments 

Kaitlyn Nuzzo, The Nature Conservancy 

Brian Parke, Maine Motor Transport Association 

Wayne Parry, Maine State Legislature 

Patricia Quinn, Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority 

Jonathan Rubin, University of Maine 

Tim Seymour, Darling's Auto Group 

Aaron Smith, Avangrid 

Michael Stoddard, Efficiency Maine Trust 

Patrick Strauch, Maine Forest Products Council 

Barry Woods, ReVision Energy 

Andrew Zarro, Bicycle Coalition of Maine