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- On Earth Day, Michaud takes digs at LePage’s environmental, energy record (4/22/14)
YARMOUTH, Maine — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Mike Michaud on Tuesday took several shots at Republican Gov. Paul LePage regarding the incumbent’s record on energy and environmental issues
- CT’s energy programs spur solar demand (4/21/14)
Nearly three years after Connecticut enacted a landmark energy law, demand for solar installations is rising — not at the same pace of neighboring Massachusetts, but giving the industry here all the work it can handle for now.
- Public-private partnership sees a big future for N.H. wood (4/17/14)
When it comes to heating your New Hampshire home or business, a new industry group wants you to forget natural gas and other fossil fuels and switch to a renewable heating source growing abundantly right here in New Hampshire: wood.
- LePage vetoes solar energy bill, two others (4/11/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage vetoed three more bills Friday evening, including a solar energy concept he has been railing against for weeks.
- Study cites nonexistent biomass plant at Madison Paper (4/5/14)
The Partnership for Policy Integrity points to 2010 permit for biomass power that was never built at the Maine paper mill.
- CT poised to lift three-year ban on wind turbines (4/21/14)
Key legislative leaders and energy officials have reached a tentative agreement to lift the state's three-year ban on wind turbine development, just in time for a northeast Connecticut project to move forward.
- Leaders Try To Put Grass Seed Debate Behind Them (4/18/14)
It’s been a week since the House, in a rare move, defeated a bill that would have banned genetically modified grass seed just one day after the Senate passed it
- ‘I don’t see the point of waiting’: Belfast councilors discuss weaning city from fossil fuels (4/16/14)
BELFAST, Maine — A month after the Belfast City Council voted to ask the state retirement system to divest from fossil fuel-related investments, City Councilor Mike Hurley asked if his fellow councilors would put their money where their mouths are, so to speak.
- Pingree bill would continue to let farm animals eat spent brewery grain (4/9/14)
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree of Maine said Tuesday that she is co-sponsoring legislation that would prevent the Food and Drug Administration from putting new restrictions on the way beer brewers handle spent grain, an organic byproduct of the brewing process
- Climate change bill lays out Rhode Island response (4/4/14)
PROVIDENCE — Rhode Island faces a serious threat from climate change but should consider it an opportunity to become a national leader on this front, the head of a legislative panel on the environment said Thursday