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PublishedAugust 30, 2019
Waterville plastic bag ban launches Sunday
Stores that are 10,000-square-feet in size or larger may no longer dispense plastic bags to customers at check-out, as required by the city of Waterville's plastic bag ordinance.
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PublishedAugust 26, 2019
Trump skips G-7 meeting on climate change, Amazon fires
The president left an empty chair as global power brokers debated how to help the fire-ravaged Amazon and reduce carbon emissions.
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PublishedAugust 18, 2019
Birding: Is it convergence or one big, happy family?
Scientists study sparrow subspecies for clues to their adaptations to marine environments.
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PublishedAugust 15, 2019
Arundel farmers say their blood samples show high levels of ‘forever chemicals’
Fred and Laura Stone's dairy farm has been shut down because of contamination from PFAS they say got into their water, soil and cows' milk from municipal sludge used as fertilizer.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2019
California sues to stop Trump rollback of Obama-era restrictions on coal-burning power plants
The administration's proposed plan eliminates the nationwide effort to reduce the energy sector's carbon footprint.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2019
Monarchs caught up in rewrite of endangered species rule
One of the changes the Trump administration wants to make is to reserve the option to estimate and publicize the financial cost of saving a species in advance of any decision on whether to do so.
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PublishedAugust 13, 2019
Maine joins lawsuit challenging Trump’s move to allow more climate-altering gas emissions
Attorney General Aaron Frey added Maine to the more than 2 dozen state and local governments trying to protect Obama-era regulations that sought to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions from power plants.
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PublishedAugust 7, 2019
Portland grants Cushing Island group first waiver from new pesticide ban
Seasonal residents of the private island in Casco Bay had requested permission to selectively use the chemical Roundup to try to control invasive plants.
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PublishedJuly 27, 2019
Hit the road: State, other groups working to protect central Maine’s wildlife on the highway
The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife is partnering with University of California-Davis and Maine Audubon to identify hot spots and prevent animals from being killed by traffic.
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PublishedJuly 8, 2019
Trump promotes his environmental record despite sweeping rollbacks
Former government regulators and environmental advocates say the president's arguments strain credulity, coming from an administration that has moved to weaken several landmark U.S. protections for air and water.
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