The American Lung Association is offering a voucher worth $1,000 to those who replace their high-polluting wood stove with a cleaner-burning one.
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Group pushes to close loophole in Maine’s ban on out-of-state waste
Environmentalists and grassroots activists say regulations let hundreds of thousands of tons of waste from other states go into Maine’s largest landfill.
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Maine businesses host online forums on climate change action
The next session, on confronting climate change in Maine’s natural resource sectors, will take place Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Poland Spring seeks new packaging materials derived from Maine’s woods
The Poland-based bottler is collaborating with the University of Maine to find alternative packaging that would lessen its use of petroleum-based products.
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Smoke from wildfires in the West reaches East Coast and even Europe
Plumes from deadly and record-breaking fires are being caught in the atmospheric jet stream and carried across the United States.
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Lobster and industrial cleanups on menu during EPA official’s visit
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler spent Thursday in Maine touring contaminated “brownfield” sites and lobster businesses.
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Supreme court rules CMP corridor referendum unconstitutional
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court finds that the initiative to reverse a decision by the Public Utilities Commission ‘exceeds the scope of the people’s legislative power.’
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Regulators begin reviewing plan for metal mine in northern Maine
Wolfden Resources’ proposal for a mine just south of Patten will likely be the first test of a state law that opened the door for metal mining in the state.
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Gideon unveils climate policies in her bid for U.S. Senate
The Democrat’s climate agenda includes supporting the U.S. rejoining the Paris Climate Agreement and requiring electric utilities to obtain some energy from renewable sources.
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Trump signs $3 billion-a-year plan to boost conservation, national parks
The law will help create more than 100,000 jobs, address the maintenance backlog and gives permanent funding to the Land and Water Conservation Fund.