EPA to Limit Emissions from New Power Plants
WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency will move Friday to strictly limit the amount of carbon that future coal- and gas-fired power plants can pour into the atmosphere, the first such...
View ArticleObama Issues New Plan to Cut Carbon Pollution from New Power Plants and...
Maine - Today, a coalition of Maine environmental groups applauded the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) newly proposed carbon pollution standards for new power plants. The proposed standards...
View ArticleEPA Wants To Limit Greenhouse Gases From New Coal Power Plants
The Environmental Protection Agency's second stab at a proposal to set the first-ever limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants would make it impossible for companies to build the kind...
View ArticleEPA to Propose Emissions Rules for Older Power Plants
WASHINGTON – The White House proposed strict limits on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants Friday but pledged to work with Maine and other states already in the carbon-regulation business...
View ArticleStudy Pinpoints Hot New Climates
WASHINGTON – Starting in about a decade, Kingston, Jamaica, will probably be off-the-charts hot — permanently. Other places will soon follow. Singapore in 2028. Mexico City in 2031. Cairo in 2036....
View ArticleClimate Experts: Warming in Maine Leading to Declining Moose, Lobster...
PORTLAND, Maine — Climate change is real, human activity is causing it, and its effects will leave Maine — and the planet — “fundamentally degraded.”That was the message delivered by renowned...
View ArticleNew York, Delaware Oppose Maine Plan to Loosen Smog Rules
AUGUSTA — Delaware and New York are opposing Maine’s proposal to loosen its anti-smog regulations, claiming it violates federal law and undermines efforts to reduce ozone and other air pollution in...
View ArticleEight States Vow 3.3M Zero-emission Vehicles by 2025
SAN FRANCISCO — The governors of eight states including California and New York pledged Thursday to get 3.3 million zero-emission vehicles on roadways by 2025 in an effort to curb greenhouse gas...
View ArticleNew Carbon Emissions Rules Offer Great Benefits to Maine
A few years ago, I served on a panel as part of a National Academy of Sciences study titled “America’s Climate Choices.” One of the takeaway lessons from that study was that carbon dioxide has a very...
View ArticlePanel Presents Maine Perspectives on Climate Change & Proposed National...
Portland, ME – Support is building in Maine for national standards that would limit climate-changing pollution from new power plants. Such standards are being pursued by the U.S. Environmental...
View ArticleEnvironmental Groups Target Climate Change
SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) -- Maine environmental groups say there is growing awareness and concern about the problems of climate change, and say they hope that translates into pressure on the...
View ArticleNew Carbon Emissions Standards Could Be Too Little, Too Late to Save Maine’s...
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...
View ArticleWashington County Land Trust Gets $1 Million in California Carbon Offset Funds
GRAND LAKE STREAM, Maine — With the help of a carbon cap-and-trade program in California, a Washington County land trust is getting more than $1 million that it hopes to use to purchase nearly 22,000...
View ArticleEliot Wants EPA Probe of Emissions from Plant
Kimberly Richards still remembers how it felt, back in the sixth grade, when she suffered her first episode of bronchitis.“It was upsetting, because at that age I was just getting into sports ......
View ArticleReport: Climate Change Impacting Game Species in Maine
Augusta, ME (September 25, 2013) – Rising temperatures, spreading diseases, and more extreme weather events fueled by manmade climate change are making survival more challenging for America’s...
View ArticleScientists Concerned by Sudden Global Warming Changes
WASHINGTON — Hard-to-predict sudden changes to Earth's environment are more worrisome than climate change's bigger but more gradual impacts, a panel of scientists advising the federal government...
View ArticleLePage Criticized for Opting Maine Out of Anti-smog Effort
AUGUSTA, Maine — Environmental groups attacked Gov. Paul LePage on Monday for his refusal to sign a petition in favor of tough standards in nine states from which pollution affects air quality in Maine...
View ArticleLePage Does Not Join Petition for Clean Air
The governors of eight Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states have petitioned the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for stronger air pollution limits on nine Midwest states, but Maine Gov. Paul LePage is...
View ArticleMaine Groups Join Massive Conservation Coalition Calling for Bold Action to...
With critical federal tax incentives set to expire on December 31, twelve Maine organizations joined more than 230 other organizations and elected officials Wednesday to urge the Obama Administration...
View ArticleLePage Should Sign Anti-smog Petition
Some East Coast governors sent a petition to Washington this week calling for tougher regulation of coal-burning power plant emissions that blow in from the Rust Belt and foul the air in places like...
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