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- 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
- Maine House overrides LePage veto of solar power rebate bill (4/14/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — The House of Representatives voted Monday to override a Gov. Paul LePage veto of a bill would fund a solar and heat pump rebate program by adding a 0.011 cents per kilowatt-hour tax on residential and commercial electric bills.
- Hydropower plan is raising alarms (4/7/14)
Proposed state legislation that would bring large amounts of hydropower to Massachusetts from Canada could crash the regional power market and kill off other needed energy-generating resources, according to some environmental advocates.
- Rhode Island House bill would reinstate 25-percent solar tax credit (4/4/14)
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — After Doug Sabetti founded Newport Solar in 2009, his business grew fast. Helped by a state tax credit that lowered the cost of renewable energy systems for homeowners, he got so much work installing solar panels that he had to hire two workers
- 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.
- Senate upholds LePage veto of solar energy bill (4/16/14)
AUGUSTA, Maine — The Senate on Wednesday pulled the blinds on a bill that would have allowed homeowners to receive a rebate for installing solar panels by sustaining Gov. Paul LePage’s veto of the measure.
- 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.
- 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
- Rhode Island House bill would reinstate 25-percent solar tax credit (4/4/14)
The legislation to bring back the credit was introduced by Rep. Deborah Ruggiero. This is the third year that the Jamestown Democrat has sponsored a bill to put it back in place. Last year and in 2012, the bill failed to make it out of committee.
- Maine House votes to toss out proposed mining rules (3/31/14)
The Maine House of Representatives passed a bill Monday that would throw out proposed mining rules drafted after a legislative vote just two years ago and require the Department of Environmental Protection to write new ones.