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- Hearing over Fall River’s Dominion energy award set for Monday (4/1/14)
FALL RIVER — The city’s filing of several motions with a U.S. District Court in central Illinois that would compel Dominion Energy to submit Fall River’s energy plan to the federal Environmental Protection Agency as part of a $1.6 million consent decree is scheduled to be heard on Monday at 2:30 p.m.
- Bethel to consider crematory proposal (3/21/14)
BETHEL -- For nearly three decades, Shawn McLaughlin's Mono-Crete Step business has made precast concrete products, including the underground vaults that cemeteries use for casket burial.
- Wood use for heating increases 110% (3/18/14)
The use of wood for home heating in Connecticut increased 110 percent since 2005, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
- Opinion: EPA’s proposed wood-heater rules a hot issue for Maine (3/2/14)
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- Maine business owners throw their support behind new federal carbon pollution limits (2/12/14)
PORTLAND — Damariscotta River oyster farmer Bill Mook said on May 9 of last year, the average daily amount of carbon dioxide in the planet’s atmosphere crossed the 400-parts-per-million threshold.
- 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
- Rhode Islanders increased their use of wood to heat their homes at fastest rate in nation (3/19/14)
Rhode Island saw the largest increase in homes using wood as the main source of heating among all states, with usage up more than 150 percent in 2012 compared with 2005, according to a federal government survey.
- EPA’s wood smoke plan could make new stoves too costly (3/10/14)
In the poorest state in New England, where residents already struggle to heat their homes, officials are worried that a federal proposal to reduce wood smoke pollution will make new stoves too expensive and prevent Mainers from buying cleaner technology
- Pollutants in wood smoke ‘can take years off people’s lives’ — Health groups push for new stove emission standards (2/21/14)
On cold, snowy nights, many Mainers light the wood stove or the fireplace to beat the chill and enjoy the flickering ambience of an open flame. But that treasured tradition comes at a cost, according to the American Lung Association.
- EPA toxic releases decline in Vermont (2/11/14)
MONTPELIER — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says releases of toxic pollutants in Vermont declined by 18 percent between 2011 and 2012