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- 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.
- 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
- Yale undergrads vote on fossil fuel divestiture this week (11/18/13)
New Haven >> Yale University students are voting this week on whether the school should curtail its investment in fossil fuel companies
- New Hampshire investor in torrefied wood has drawn more than $142M in tax breaks, state loan (10/28/13)
Cate Street Capital had never before run a paper mill, and arguably the company’s biggest reason for coming to Maine is to try a commercial untested technology without contractually guaranteed customers or suppliers. But the New Hampshire investment group, its subsidiaries and its investors have received at least $142 million in tax breaks and a guaranteed loan from Maine and the federal government since 2011, officials say.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Statehouse hearing to talk coal power (11/9/13)
BOSTON — A hearing on a bill that purports to put Massachusetts on path to clean energy will take place 10 a.m. on Tues., Nov. 12, in the Statehouse.
- More Maine homeowners use propane for heating fuel (10/27/13)
(AP) As prices become more competitive, Maine homeowners are increasingly turning away from oil as their primary heating source and using propane instead.
- Oil and gas to maintain key roles in New England energy picture (10/24/13)
PORTLAND - An industry analyst tells a Portland audience that gasoline, diesel fuel and home heating oil will continue to be in high demand for decades. Total energy use in the United States will grow by 10 percent by 2040, an analyst from the American Petroleum Institute said Thursday in Portland.