Success of Maine Program Paved Way for New Federal Standards News Release Portland and Augusta—In the most significant step the United States has ever taken to reduce the pollution causing global warming, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the first-ever national carbon pollution standards for existing power plants. The action is so significant because Read More
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EPA to Seek to Cut Power Plant Carbon by One-third
The rule, when it becomes final a year from now, will set the first-ever national limits on the gases linked to global warming from the nation’s power plants. By Dina Cappiello, The Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story WASHINGTON – The Obama administration on Monday will unveil a plan to cut earth-warming pollution from power Read More
Supreme Court Upholds Downwind Pollution Limits
Associated Press news story WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution in 27 Midwestern and Appalachian states that blows downwind and leads to unhealthy air. The decision caps a decades-long effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to find a legally Read More
Court Upholds EPA Power-plant Emission Standards
The case has potential air-quality ramifications for Maine, which has been described as the ‘tailpipe’ of the nation. By Pete Yost The Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story WASHINGTON — A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld the Environmental Protection Agency’s first emission standards for mercury and other hazardous air pollutants from coal- and Read More
Become a Maine Business for Climate Action
Maine is a leader in clean energy development and reducing climate-changing carbon pollution. We are doing our part, and now we need federal action to address climate pollution from power plants. You can help by adding your name to the growing list of Maine businesses calling for federal action on climate and clean energy. In Read More
Maine Businesses Push for Action on Climate Change
by Craig Lyons Portland Daily Sun news story More than 250 Maine businesses have called on U.S. Sens. Angus King and Susan Collins to help keep new regulations for power plant emissions on track. Maine Businesses for Climate Action and the Natural Resources Council of Maine are urging King and Collins, Maine Independent and Republican, Read More
Nearly 250 Maine Businesses Urge Collins, King to Support National Power Plant Pollution Standards as Strong as New England’s
Say action on climate change pollution is important for Maine’s identity, culture. NRCM news release Today, business leaders gathered at the iconic Porthole Restaurant on Portland Harbor to release a letter to Maine Senators Susan Collins and Angus King urging their support for proposed national standards on power plant carbon pollution that are as strong Read More
Federal Court Strikes Down EPA’s Biomass Pollution Loophole
EcoWatch news story On Friday, a key federal court ruling confirmed that Clean Air Act limits on carbon dioxide (CO2) pollution apply to industrial facilities that burn biomass, including tree-burning power plants. The court vacated an exemption that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had carved out for “biogenic carbon dioxide.” The decision, by a Read More
Federal Court Upholds EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Rules
The U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington has ruled that the EPA was “unambiguously correct” in using existing federal law to address global warming. MPBN news story WASHINGTON (AP) A federal appeals court is upholding the first federal regulations to reduce the gases blamed for global warming. The rules, which were challenged by industry groups and Read More
