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- St. Francis hires energy overseer (8/5/14)
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center in Hartford has hired a New York City contractor to monitor all energy use of the 617-bed acute care facility.
- Opponents of Rockland bag fees surpass target to force repeal vote (8/4/14)
ROCKLAND — Opponents to a mandatory pay-per-bag trash disposal law collected far more signatures than needed in fewer than two weeks to ask residents at referendum in November to repeal the ordinance approved in City Council.
- Solar bill’s failure on Beacon Hill was a missed opportunity for utilities (8/2/14)
Plenty of people in the clean-tech industry were disappointed that an ambitious bill to overhaul the state’s solar incentives didn’t make it to the finish line last week.
- Ag tourism touted as way to boost rural economies
(AP) Working farms attract visitors with farm stands, pumpkin patches, barn dances, zip-line rides, pick-your-own berries, corn mazes and even weddings.
- State seeks $35,000 Vermont Gas fine (8/1/14)
MONTPELIER — State regulators Thursday asked for a $35,000 fine against Vermont Gas Systems for being slow to file a new and higher cost estimate for phase one of a natural gas pipeline expansion in western Vermont
- Portland council orders group to study possibility of rooftop park over Congress Square event center (8/4/14)
PORTLAND — The Portland City Council on Monday revived a study group charged with plotting the future of the embattled Congress Square and ordered the panel to consider the possibility of a rooftop park over an event center there.
- ReEnergy to restart Ashland biomass plant idled since 2011 (8/4/14)
PORTLAND — The New York-based owner of four biomass plants in Maine plans to restart its Ashland operation by the end of the year, with a ramp-up that will include hiring 25 people, buying mill and forest byproducts and assessing and re-tuning equipment.
- Rapid aquaculture expansion alarms residents on Bagaduce River (8/3/14)
PENOBSCOT, Maine — Oysters have developed a heavy presence in a tidal estuary that separates three Blue Hill Peninsula towns, and not everybody is celebrating their arrival. It’s not the mere presence of the mollusks that some people object to so much. It’s the way they have moved in.
- Videos emerge that drive petitions against Northern Pass (8/2/14)
Three two-minute videos on YouTube have helped conservation groups drive nearly 7,000 people to sign a “Bury or Stop Northern Pass” petition online.
- Maine DEP sets odor intensity scale for human waste composters (8/1/14)
PLYMOUTH — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has set new odor limits for composting facilities that deal with municipal solid waste — including controversial compost manufacturer Soil Preparation Inc.