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- Few back Manchester proposal to pay-as-you-throw (4/3/14)
MANCHESTER — An overwhelming majority of the people at Thursday's public session on a proposed pay-as-you-throw garbage collection system said they were opposed to the idea
- Maine Department of Environmental Protection challenges judge’s ruling on island wind power noise (4/2/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection has appealed a Kennebec County judge’s ruling that chastised Commissioner Patricia Aho for her role in responding to complaints by neighbors over noise from Vinalhaven wind turbines.
- Bucksport mill one of dozens of ‘dirty’ biomass plants, environmental group claims (4/2/14)
BUCKSPORT, Maine — The local Verso Paper mill is one of dozens of biomass-burning facilities in 25 states that an environmental energy policy organization says creates more pollution than modern coal plants.
- CT Green Guide publishes Spring edition (3/14)
- Conservation Law Foundation seeks records on New England governors’ plan to build new gas pipeline (3/19/14)
BOSTON — The Conservation Law Foundation wants to get a behind-the-scenes look at how governors in the six New England states came up with the idea of using ratepayer money to finance construction of a new natural gas pipeline into New England.
- LNG official says no need to build pipeline (4/3/14)
The president of New England’s largest distributor of liquefied natural gas says the region’s governors are barking up the wrong tree in calling for a ratepayer-funded pipeline to expand the flow of natural gas into the six states.
- With partnership in limbo, First Wind seeks to borrow $75 million (4/2/14)
Boston-based First Wind, Maine’s largest wind-power developer, is trying to raise $75 million to build projects this spring, a month after a court ruling struck down its critical financial partnership with a Canadian energy company
- New England seeking to tap Canadian hydropower (3/25/14)
A 300-mile power cable line would be buried on land and run underwater from Maine to Boston in a proposal to tap Canada's hydropower for power-hungry southern New England.
- Six New England governors accused of ‘backroom’ power deals (3/21/14)
HARTFORD, Conn. – A Boston environmental group is challenging how energy policy is coordinated by New England’s six governors, saying the state leaders are conducting private negotiations with the energy industry.
- Report: Natural gas price hikes pushed electric rates higher in 2013 (3/18/14)
The operator of the New England power grid has completed its analysis of energy prices for 2013, and the results should come as no surprise.