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- Connecticut, 7 other states ask for EPA crackdown on Rust Belt air pollution (12/9/13)
Connecticut and seven other eastern states, all with Democratic governors and most under longstanding orders to reduce pollution, said Monday they are petitioning the Environmental Protection Agency to force stricter air standards on nine upwind states from the Rust Belt and Appalachia that rely on coal-fired power plants.
- Editorial: EPA should conduct study of Eliot’s (ME) air (12/2/13)
For many years there was no question that the air in Eliot was polluted by coal-burning Schiller Station, just across the Piscataqua River in New Hampshire. You could see tiny black particles that were carried in the air and that would collect on walls, windows, cars and the surface of puddles.
- Reading the smoke signals: Concerns about wood-stove smoke prompt state review (11/24/13)
Wood smoke as a public health issue hasn't gained much traction. This is Maine; Maine is wood.
- Activist group turns up heat on Schiller Station (11/19/13)
PORTSMOUTH — Citizens for Clean and Fair Power, which is working toward the retirement of the Schiller Station power plant, is holding a forum on the issue Wednesday night in Portsmouth.
- New carbon emissions standards could be too little, too late to save Maine’s maple syrup, shellfishing industries (11/16/13)
SOUTH PORTLAND — Maine’s maple syrup industry could be gone in 50 years, and the state’s commercial shellfishing industry could be wiped out in two.
- Opinion: New pollution requirements would pave way for newer, cleaner industrial technologies in Maine (12/3/13)
- RGGI States Urge EPA to Let Success Of Regional Plan Guide Power Plant Rules (12/2/13)
- Eliot wants EPA probe of emissions from plant (11/24/13)
While some residents are blaming respiratory problems on air pollution, Schiller Station says it’s in compliance
- What’s old is new in New Hampshire: Wood, pellets gain steam (11/18/13)
CONCORD -- There's renewed enthusiasm in heavily forested New Hampshire for the idea of homegrown heating sources, primarily wood and -- more recently -- wood pellets.
- E. Granby’s Opus buys Windsor vehicle testing firm for $84M (11/6/13)
East Granby vehicle testing provider Opus Inspection Inc. said it has signed a deal to acquire Envirotest Systems Holding Corp. for $84 million