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- R.I. Senate panel to consider bill banning plastic bags (4/2/14)
PROVIDENCE (AP) — A Senate panel is set to consider legislation that would ban the use of plastic checkout bags by grocery stores and other retailers statewide.
- Clean-energy views add heat to Maine governor’s race (3/21/14)
In a day of staking out positions, Gov. LePage says pro-renewables policies cost money and jobs, clashing with his two rivals’ support for solar and wind.
- Wind industry growth at stake in Maine talks on fate of joint venture (3/19/14)
Hundreds of millions of investment dollars, and the future growth of Maine’s wind power industry, will be at stake when state utility regulators and lawyers begin talks Thursday about whether a partnership between Maine’s largest wind power developer and a Canadian energy company can, or should, be preserved
- LePage blasts Dems’ solar plan, seeks to expand rebates for heating conversions by increasing state timber harvest (3/18/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine – Gov. Paul LePage launched a fusillade of criticism against the state Legislature’s Democratic majority for supporting bills that promote solar energy during one of the coldest winters in recent history
- State radon test office overwhelmed with calls (3/16/14)
State law required radon testing for all residential rental properties by March 1, but many landlords and property owners didn’t start the process until shortly before or after the deadline.
- Northeast Wind Summit comes to Maine, though welcome mat’s not fully out (3/26/14)
SOUTH PORTLAND — Stephen Nolet knows that Gov. Paul LePage is hostile to wind energy. But Nolet, senior director for innovation and technology at TPI Composites in Warwick, R.I., was in Maine on Tuesday at a sold-out, regional conference that focused on how businesses can supply the growing wind power industry in the Northeast
- LePage slams ‘green’ energy at clean-tech business forum (3/20/14)
HALLOWELL — Gov. Paul LePage used a meeting of clean-tech business leaders on Thursday to attack Maine’s “green” energy policies that he said bear responsibility for the loss of manufacturing jobs in the state.
- Portland will require large apartments to offer recycling (3/18/14)
Starting next year, Portland will require landlords of large apartment buildings to offer convenient recycling to their tenants
- Legislature looks to expand renewable subsidies (3/18/14)
The Connecticut General Assembly's Energy & Technology Committee on Tuesday discussed expanding support for renewable energy installations between 1-20 megawatts.
- Judge chastises Maine DEP commissioner in overturning Vinalhaven wind power decree (3/14/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — A Superior Court judge has overturned a decision by the commissioner of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection concerning noise complaints against a Vinalhaven wind power project, saying the agency head’s action had no rational basis