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- ‘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.
- 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
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- Loci Controls gets $765,000 to commercialize clean energy tech (3/13/14)
The money will be used to commercialize the startup's hardware and software technology for automating the harvesting of methane gas from landfills.
- New England power plant closings pinch supply (2/5/14)
HARTFORD (AP) – The retirement of several power plants in New England is reducing power supply and driving up prices, the region’s electric grid operator warned Wednesday
- 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.
- 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
- Environmental groups blast Brayton Point at Rhode Island press conference on energy emission standards (9/21/13)
U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse and state Rep. Raymond Gallison Jr., D.-Bristol, joined several Rhode Island environmental groups Friday morning at the Mount Hope Boat Ramp, which is directly across the water from Brayton Point.