With $30 million in state funding, officials plan an unprecedented effort to test sites statewide for chemicals known as PFAS and assist people affected by the pollution.
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Posted inNation & World
Major oil spill off Southern California fouls beaches
Crews are scrambling to stop the crude from going to wetlands and an ecological reserve.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Canadian dam owner sues Maine over alleged effort to remove 4 Kennebec River dams
Brookfield Renewable argues state agencies are violating a binding river management agreement in their fight over the future of Atlantic salmon.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine lobstermen sue federal regulators over right whale restrictions
Their trade association says the federal government used flawed science to develop a whale protection plan that poses grave harm to the lobster industry.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
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.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
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.
Posted inNation & World
Climate change could force 200 million people to move by 2050
A World Bank report has found climate change could create migration hotspots unless urgent action is taken to reduce global emissions.
Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
‘Buy American’ isn’t just for cars or washing machines. A proposed bill applies to flowers
The American Grown Act, supported by Rep. Pingree and Sen. King, asks that the U.S. government buy U.S. blossoms.
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Solar energy could power 40% of U.S. electricity by 2035
But a new federal report says it would require massive changes in U.S. policy and billions of dollars in federal investment to modernize the nation’s electric grid.
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New federal lobstering restrictions spark backlash from industry and elected officials
‘This was the worst-case scenario,’ one Maine lobsterman says of rules to protect endangered whales by seasonally restricting 950 square miles of the Gulf of Maine.