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- All Eyes on Boston: Will the New Commercial Food Waste Ban Lead to a Boom in Waste-to-Energy? (8/13/14)
Will the implementation of the ban be a model for other states? The answer may be an outstanding, yes!
- Statoil Rejection an Epic Error for Maine, U.S. (7/26/14)
Recent news about a $2.5 billion investment in England by Statoil, the giant Norwegian energy company, has reminded people that Maine kicked the company out of the state. But the real meaning of the state’s action has been greatly underrated. The move was an epic error.
- PolitiFact R.I. rules Sen. Whitehouse claim on solar, coal jobs is True (7/6/14)
PROVIDENCE -- For more than a year, U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse has delivered weekly Senate speeches about the dangers of climate change. He frequently denounces climate-change deniers, and urges growth of green jobs and technologies to reduce America’s reliance on foreign fossil fuel.
- Op-ed: Proposed wind project regs give CT a chance to lead (4/18/14)
Connecticut lawmakers Tuesday have the opportunity to clear a major roadblock standing in the way of the state's clean energy future by approving wind siting regulations that will set permitting standards for wind generators and remove a ban on wind energy projects that is detracting from Connecticut’s leadership on energy policy
- Opinion: Maine Voices: Collins and King should support new EPA power plant proposals (3/31/14)
PORTLAND — Climate change is getting expensive. As the president of East Brown Cow Management in Portland, I own and manage more than 20 properties in the area, so rising sea levels, extreme weather and other problems from climate change quite literally threaten the very foundations of the business I have built
- Forum: Toledo contamination underscores need to protect land around water supplies (8/12/14)
The majority of people living in the United States do not think about their tap water until there is a problem
- Editorial: Kennametal’s announcement that it will expand in Greenfield bodes well for region (7/25/14)
Kennametal’s announcement Wednesday that it will expand in Greenfield by $5 million and 70 jobs isn’t just welcome news, it’s nearly miraculous.
- Real energy vs. greens’ subsidized fantasies (6/2/14)
If America's hydrocarbon boom has a lesson to teach, it is this: Don't take career advice from moonbats. The "green" sector, it turns out, isn't much of a job creator recently.
(D. Dowd Muska writes about government, economics, and technology. He lives in Broad Brook, CT)
- Editorial (ME): New EPA wood stove standards? Sure, but get them right (4/11/14)
The next time you think about getting the wood stove going, check to see what the stove’s emission limit is. Odds are the stove is old, and the number of grams of smoke per hour it emits isn’t as low as it could be
- Opinion: M.D. Harmon: Maine should leave Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative compact (3/28/14)
A withdrawal would save the state’s consumers at least $106 million from 2015 to 2020, a study says.