Hannah Pingree to U.S. Senators: Chemical Safety Reform Needed Now
The federal government’s primary law regulating chemicals in household products is in desperate need of an update, Maine’s former House speaker told a congressional committee in Washington, D.C., on...
View ArticleHannah Pingree Urges Tougher Toxin Laws
WASHINGTON – Former Maine House Speaker Hannah Pingree testified in Congress on Tuesday in support of stronger federal chemical safety laws that advocates say are needed to protect consumers -- and...
View ArticleSenate Committee Takes Historic Vote to Overhaul US Chemical Policy
(WASHINGTON, DC) In a historic vote today, the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works (EPW) passed S.847, the Safe Chemicals Act, sponsored by Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ). This is the...
View ArticleCommittee Sends Chemical Safety Measure on to Full Senate Vote
A U.S. Senate committee on Wednesday signed off on the first major update to the nation’s chemical safety laws since 1976, referring the measure to the full Senate on a party-line vote.The Safe...
View ArticleRecord-breaking 3 Million Comments Support EPA's Carbon Pollution Standard
The Natural Resources Council of Maine and Environment Maine today announced that 16,615 Maine people were part of an unprecedented three million U.S. citizens who contacted the U.S. EPA in support of...
View ArticleCourt Blocks E.P.A. Rule on Cross-State Pollution
WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned a federal rule that laid out how much air pollution states would have to clean up to avoid incurring violations in downwind states. The...
View ArticleFederal Appeals Court Throws Out EPA Air Standard
WASHINGTON — A divided federal appeals court Tuesday overturned a regulation clamping down on power plant pollution that contributes to unhealthy air in neighboring states.In a 2-1 decision, a panel of...
View ArticleMainers See EPA Court Ruling as a ‘Tremendous Setback’
No one in Maine appeared pleased after a federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the Environmental Protection Agency’s cross-state air pollution rule – a rule people in this state said was designed...
View ArticleEPA Should Set High Levels for Soot Pollution
While greenhouse gas emissions and climate change get most of the airtime when environmental issues are discussed, they are far from the only threat.A court order requires the Obama administration to...
View ArticleObama Administration and EPA to Move Forward with Lifesaving Protections...
Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) joins with a broad range of organizations in support of the just-finalized Soot Pollution Standard to be announced today by the Environmental...
View ArticleA Good Year for Clean Air
It’s been a good year for clean air, and we are grateful. In the last 12 months, the Environmental Protection Agency, under the Obama Administration, has finalized three new clean air standards that...
View ArticleBusloads of Mainers Return from Climate Rally in Washington, D.C.
PORTLAND, Maine —Five busloads of Mainers are returning from a demonstration in Washington that was described as the largest climate rally ever in the U.S.Tens of thousands of people were at Sunday's...
View ArticleMainers Rally to Fight Climate Change
Helyne May remembers hearing President Obama invoke Franklin Roosevelt's quote about people asking themselves what they are going to do to accomplish goals and that was exactly what drew her and...
View ArticleThousands of Protesters March Against Pipeline
WASHINGTON - Thousands of protesters braved the cold Sunday and marched to urge President Obama to reject the Keystone XL pipeline and to show leadership on other climate issues they called...
View ArticleNRCM Goes to Washington
When we announced to our members that NRCM would sponsor a bus to the Forward on Climate rally in Washington, D.C., it was filled within a week. NRCM members joined more than 35,000 people in D.C. for...
View ArticleGroups Urge Court to Uphold Clean Air Safeguards
Washington, D.C.--(ENEWSPF)--February 22, 2013. Eighteen national and state medical, public health, civil rights, environmental, and clean air groups filed a brief late Thursday with the D.C. Circuit...
View ArticleMaine Reps Continue to Push Obama Administration on Tar Sands Review
U.S. Reps. Chellie Pingree and Mike Michaud joined 16 of their colleagues in Congress to continue to push the Obama administration to require a thorough review for any proposal that would pump tar...
View ArticlePingree: Support Growing for More Tar Sands Regulation on Pipeline
Maine 1st District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is gaining regional support for her position that the Portland-Montreal Pipe Line Company undergo further environmental review before it's allowed to...
View ArticleScrutiny Urged on Piping of Tar Sands Through Maine
WASHINGTON — The growing debate over the possibility of Canadian tar sands oil being piped through Maine has spread to Washington, D.C., as members of Congress urge the State Department to require a...
View ArticleChellie Pingree Lobbies Obama to Require Environmental Review if Portland...
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, sent a letter Wednesday to the Obama administration asking that any plan to reverse the flow of the Portland Montreal Pipeline to carry oil sands...
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