PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • March 13, 2025
Efficiency Maine Trust, the quasi-state agency that administers energy efficiency programs and disburses heat pump incentives, has lost access to about $15 million in federal funding that would have doubled its capacity to draw private capital for energy efficiency and clean energy programs. It’s one of more than two dozen nonprofit groups and agencies in the U.S. that the Trump administration has targeted by freezing and later canceling their assets.