In a rare alignment, manufacturers and environmentalists join to help the measure sail easily through committee. By Kevin Miller, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story A bill that would ban soaps, shampoos and other consumer products containing tiny plastic “microbeads” in Maine sailed through a legislative committee Wednesday after manufacturers and environmentalists made a Read More
Support of LD 85, An Act to Prohibit Synthetic Plastic Microbeads in Personal Care Products and Over-the-counter Drugs
Senator Saviello, Representative Welsh, and members of the Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources, my name is Sarah Lakeman and I am the Sustainable Maine Policy Advocate for the Natural Resources Council of Maine. I appreciate this opportunity to testify in support of LD 85. There is a strong case for phasing out Read More
My Maine This Week: Rockland Breakwater by Steve Cartwright
“Love the late afternoon light in this photo of the Rockland breakwater in January. Love this place, too, since it remains open to the public and is very popular. A volunteer group maintains the light keeper’s house. One elderly gentleman walks the breakwater every day, year-round. In the summertime it’s a sociable scene where you Read More
My Maine This Week: Eagle by Callie Wronker
“I saw this juvenile eagle on January 12 around 1:00 p.m. along Baxter Boulevard in Portland looking out over Back Cove. Perhaps it was contemplating mallard for lunch?” —Photo by NRCM member Callie Wronker of Portland, Maine To see past My Maine This Week photos, or to submit a photo of your own to be featured on Read More
Irving Submits Plan to Develop, Preserve 51,000 Acres Around Northern Maine Lakes
By Julia Bayly, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story FORT KENT, Maine — State officials and the public got their first look at what Canadian-based J.D. Irving has in store for its 51,000 acres around the Fish River chain of lakes in northern Maine after the company filed its concept plan late last month. Read More
Irving Unveils Plan for 51K Acres of Maine Forest Land
By Ed Morin Maine Public news story Canada-based J.D. Irving has submitted a concept plan to state regulators with ideas about how the company wants to use 51,000 acres of forest land and lakes it owns in northern Aroostook County. Anthony Hourihan, Irving’s director of land development, says the goal of the plan is to Read More
Consultant’s Millinocket Report Seen to Have Little Effect on Katahdin Region National Park Efforts
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story MILLINOCKET, Maine — Despite endorsing efforts to promote tourism around public lands, the blunt report from a Virginia economic development firm for Millinocket was silent on the largest possible project in line with that strategy: a North Woods national park. The leading advocate for Read More
My Maine This Week: Catherine Simonson
“This is a cute little fox I came across in Bar Harbor in early December. I think I interrupted his/her snack time! But, s/he was otherwise fairly compliant and posed for a few photos.” —Photos by NRCM member Catherine Simonson of Ellsworth, Maine. To view the photos in a larger format, please click on them Read More
North American Sightings of Elusive Snowy Owls Take Flight
By Barbara Goldberg, Reuters Bangor Daily News news story NEW YORK — The elusive snowy owl, rarely seen outside the Arctic, is turning up more frequently in the skies of North America than it does in the pages of a Harry Potter book, data from the National Audubon Society suggested on Wednesday. Sightings of the Read More
