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- Skowhegan, Jay mills named among Maine’s biggest polluters in federal report (2/10/14)
The federal government’s latest list of the biggest polluters in Maine includes a handful of the state’s largest paper mills, including two in central Maine.
- Carbon market emissions in Northeast states fell in 2013 (2/6/14)
WASHINGTON — Greenhouse gas emissions fell 6 percent in 2013 in the nine northeast states that participate in a trading scheme to cut carbon dioxide from power plants, helped by mild temperatures and some use of cleaner energy sources.
- Opponents try to turn up the heat in Bow coal scrubber case (1/9/14)
What did Public Service of New Hampshire officials know and when did they know it? And did they withhold information from regulators when the decision was made to go ahead with a $420 million scrubber on the coal-burning Merrimack Station plant in Bow?
- Aroostook Band of Micmacs installs system to monitor mercury in Northeast (12/23/13)
PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — The Aroostook Band of Micmacs has completed the installation of a continuous atmospheric mercury monitoring system at its local office that will allow the tribe to monitor the impact that mercury pollution has on fish, other wildlife and humans.
- State (CT) warns of pollution from residential wood-burning (12/16/13)
The state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection is encouraging residents to protect their health and that of their neighbors by limiting their exposure to pollution created from improperly burning wood.
- Wood boiler users dispute heavy pollution claims (2/10/14)
OXFORD -- The smoke emanating from outdoor wood-burning furnaces can lie thick and low. Rather than rising and dispersing, it can spread out, leaving smoky particles hanging about.
- RGGI states implement 45% cut to power plant pollution cap (1/13/14
NEW YORK – The nine member states of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, including Rhode Island, have set the program’s greenhouse gas pollution cap for 2014 at 91 million tons, putting into effect emissions-cutting regulations first proposed last February.
- Verso Paper to acquire NewPage for $1.4 billion (1/7/14)
Verso Paper Corp., which owns two Maine paper mills, has agreed to acquire NewPage Holdings Inc., which owns Rumford Paper.
- Keene to study woodstove smoke (12/22/13)
The N.H. valley town that is prone to air inversions will teach people how to burn wood more efficiently.
- LePage does not join petition for clean air (12/10/13)
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 not among them.