New Carbon Emissions Standards Could Be Too Little, Too Late to Save Maine’s Maple Syrup, Shellfishing Industries

SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine — Maine’s maple syrup industry could be gone in 50 years, and the state’s commercial shellfishing industry could be wiped out in two.Those were some of the dire consequences in Maine of ever-growing carbon pollution by out-of-state coal-fired power plants, according to a South Portland panel Thursday that included a doctor, lobsterman, clamming industry repr...