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PublishedOctober 12, 2021
Maine to investigate more than 500 sludge sites for contamination by ‘forever chemicals’
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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PublishedOctober 3, 2021
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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PublishedSeptember 28, 2021
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.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2021
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.
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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
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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PublishedSeptember 26, 2021
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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PublishedSeptember 13, 2021
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.
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PublishedSeptember 12, 2021
‘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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PublishedSeptember 8, 2021
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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PublishedSeptember 1, 2021
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.
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