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Links tagged “Clean Air Act”
- Opinion: EPA’s proposed wood-heater rules a hot issue for Maine (3/2/14)
Republicans could milk them in the run-up to November’s election
- 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?
- 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.
- RGGI States Urge EPA to Let Success Of Regional Plan Guide Power Plant Rules (12/2/13)
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Penalties levied in clean air-related lawsuit against Somerset’s Brayton Point power plant (10/24/13)
SOMERSET — Massachusetts environmental groups are trumpeting the settlement of a clean air-related lawsuit with the owners of the Brayton Point power plant in Somerset and say the pressure put on plant owners to comply with emissions laws hastened plans to close the plant.