Cooke Aquaculture, a Canada-based fish farming giant, found thousands of fish deaths in August at sites it operates at Black Island and Black Island South.
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Data breach of web company affiliated with far-right groups affects 190 Mainers
The hack of Epik on Sept. 13 by the online collective Anonymous exposed personal and financial information of 110,000 people nationwide.
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San Diego cannabis dispensary disputes its marketing targets minors
Some accuse the company of targeting underage customers with its name – Cookies – and Sesame Street-style graphics, saying it evokes the Cookie Monster character.
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U.K. gas stations run dry as trucker shortage sparks hoarding
The government says it’ll issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign drivers starting next month.
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Owners of Maine’s carbon-sponge forests asked to do more to blunt climate change
Two separate efforts are underway to maximize carbon absorption, one for smaller landowners and the other for forest industry heavyweights.
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Markets that pay woodland owners to store carbon are complex, controversial
Maine, the nation’s most heavily forested state, has been an early participant in so-called carbon offset markets.
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Central Maine business briefs: UMF names director of Campus Safety Grant
People & Places: Peter Onuf joins Board of Augusta’s First Amendment Museum
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Stocks end mixed on Wall Street as S&P 500 manages weekly gain
Investors have been facing similar choppiness throughout September as they try to gauge how the economy will continue its recovery.
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China releases Canadians after Huawei CFO resolves U.S. charges
The deal with Meng Wanzhou calls for the Justice Department to dismiss fraud charges late next year in exchange for her accepting responsibility for misrepresenting her company’s business dealings in Iran.
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House passes defense bill with potential work for Bath shipyard
The house’s version of the defense bill approves three Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the main type of ship Bath Iron Works builds, to be constructed in fiscal year 2022.