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Links tagged “Clean Air Act”
- ‘The air is bad’: Mainers support new limits on power plant emissions (8/6/14)
PORTLAND — Dr. Tony Owens stood before a federal environmental regulator Wednesday and described his most recent shift in the emergency department at Maine Medical Center.
- Wood pellet boiler industry pushes changes for new heating systems (4/25/14)
PORTLAND, Maine — In a nondescript warehouse on Presumpscot Street, around a dozen high-tech wood pellet boilers arrived this week from Denmark aboard a ship from Iceland, bound for installation in Maine.
- Environmental group’s report comes under fire after citing Bucksport mill as one of dozens of ‘dirty’ biomass plants (4/6/14)
BUCKSPORT, Maine — In the wake of a report publicly released April 2 about biomass-burning power generators, some are criticizing the report and others are defending the use of biofuels as a comparatively “clean” and sustainable technology
- 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.
- 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
- Concord (NH) hearing gives the public a chance to comment on EPA Clean Power Plan (7/28/14)
Because of climate change, New Hampshire’s moose population is struggling – fighting a longer tick season and higher quantities of parasites – and over the past decade it has declined more than 40 percent, said Eric Orff, a New Hampshire wildlife biologist. That’s why Orff said he supports the Environmental Protection Agency’s recent proposal to cut carbon emissions.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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