NRCM Applauds Pingree and Michaud For Insisting Obama Administration: No Tar...
Today Congresswoman Chellie Pingree sent a letter, co-signed by 17 other members of Congress, including Congressman Michael Michaud, asking that the owners of the Portland Pipeline not be allowed to...
View ArticleEPA Leader: Good News for Women, Bipartisanship, the Environment
It is particularly fitting that President Barack Obama nominated Gina McCarthy as our nation’s next Environmental Protection Agency administrator during the same week as International Women’s Day,...
View ArticleE.P.A.’s Keystone Report Card
In the bland, formal language of interagency correspondence, the Environmental Protection Agency has written a trenchant review of the State Department’s most recent effort to assess the consequences...
View ArticleThe Real Obstacle to Halting Climate Change
In case you missed the news, humanity just spent the Earth Day week reaching another sad milestone in the history of catastrophic climate change: For the first time, measurements of carbon dioxide in...
View ArticleGreen Groups Ask Sens. Collins and King to Back EPA Nominee, Condemn GOP...
Portland, Maine – Maine’s major environmental organizations today called on Senators Susan Collins and Angus King to publicly endorse Gina McCarthy to be the next EPA Administrator, following a boycott...
View ArticleClock is Ticking, Slowly, on Rules for Coal-fired Power Plants
POOLESVILLE, Md. — On a curve of the Potomac River 37 miles northwest of Washington, the Dickerson power plant has stood sentry over small villages, crop fields and horse farms for more than half a...
View ArticleMaine Environmental Groups Applaud Committee Vote on EPA Administrator...
Augusta, Maine – Today, a majority of Senators on the U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee voted to send EPA Nominee Gina McCarthy’s nomination to the floor of the Senate. In response,...
View ArticleInvest, Divest and Prosper
It has been a busy news week, what with voting rights, gay marriage and Paula Deen. Even so, it’s remarkable how little attention the news media gave to President Obama’s new “climate action plan.”...
View ArticleObama is Right on Climate Change
(CNN) -- The goals President Barack Obama set out Tuesday in his Climate Action Plan -- including cutting pollution from coal plants and aggressively pursuing clean energy alternatives -- won't solve...
View ArticleScientists: Maine Lobster Industry Threatened by Climate Change
It's that time of year when native Mainers and summer tourists alike don plastic bibs and get crackin' on succulent Maine lobsters. Last year lobstermen landed about $340 million worth of these...
View ArticleCarbon Emissions Hurting Lobster Industry
PORTLAND, Maine —During the summer season, Commercial Street is jammed with people who are buying Maine’s signature food – lobster.Some say carbon emissions could chase the lobsters away, but one...
View ArticleClimate Change Impacts Maine Lobster Population
(NECN: Marnie MacLean, Portland, Maine) - A Maine environmental group is warning that climate change may be causing problems for the state's lobster business.In 2012, lobstermen caught nearly $340...
View ArticleGroups Aim to Garner Support for Climate Change Initiatives Through Lobster
A new soldier has been enlisted to fight climate change: the Maine lobster.An informational campaign that launched Tuesday is using Maine's favorite crustaceans as the poster child to show the impact...
View ArticleCampaign: Pollution Threatens Maine Lobsters
PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Leaders of Maine's lobster industry joined restaurant owners and scientists on Monday to warn that global climate change poses a threat to Maine's lobster population....
View ArticleWhat the US, Maine Did Right to Address Climate Change, Electric Costs
On June 26, President Barack Obama delivered a compelling call to action on climate change. The president said that he will use the authority vested in the executive branch to reduce carbon pollution...
View ArticleEarth Matters: Few Changes Likely to Take Place with Current President, Governor
On June 25, President Barack Obama came out with his major climate change policy plans. The following day, the Maine Legislature failed to override Gov. Paul LePage's veto of a climate change bill that...
View ArticlePresident’s Climate Plan: Good for National Security and Lobsters?
PORTLAND, Maine - Extreme weather events, including heavy rains and flooding, are just the tip of the iceberg for potential effects of climate change in Maine, experts say. One climate-related concern...
View ArticleFederal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Emissions Loophole
Washington, DC – Today, the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit handed down a decision that confirmed the science does not justify categorically exempting industrial facilities burning biomass,...
View ArticleFederal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Pollution Loophole
On Friday, a key federal court ruling confirmed that Clean Air Act limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution apply to industrial facilities that burn biomass, including tree-burning power plants. The...
View ArticleNominee is 'Highly Qualified' to Lead Environmental Protection Agency
LINCOLNVILLE - When I heard that President Obama had nominated Gina McCarthy to head the Environmental Protection Agency, I said, "Wow, what an excellent choice!"In the late 1990s and...
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