So far more than 1.7 million people, including more than 9,000 people from Maine, have written to support the first-ever national safeguards essential to protect Americans from climate-changing carbon pollution from new power plants! That makes two historic firsts, because this is the also largest number of public comments ever received by the EPA. Power plants Read More
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Group Threatens EPA with Lawsuit Over St. Croix Alewives
By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story ELLSWORTH, Maine — Two individuals and a southern Maine organization are ramping up their legal fight to restore alewives to the St. Croix River, this time accusing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of complicity in preventing the fish from spawning Down East. Friends of Merrymeeting Read More
“Redneck Legacy” & Mountaintop Removal Mining: Thoughts on a Presentation by a West Virginia Activist
Chuck Keeney, from Friends of Blair Mountain, gave a fabulous presentation at Bowdoin College last night on the history of coal mining and the unionization of miners in West Virginia. His great grandfather played a central role in the miners’ early resistance to coal company exploitation that eventually led to the Battle of Blair Mountain Read More
New Report Sheds Light on Disappointing Winter
Last winter, I wrote a blog post, Joys of a Maine winter, sharing my love for winter fishing in Maine. But this winter has been disappointing. With the warm December and January, and early spring (summer, really) temperatures, the ice fishing season was much abbreviated. I got out on the ice maybe only five times this Read More
Collins Should Fight for Limits on Toxic Pollution, Not Against Them
The EPA has amended its approach to address industry concerns the senator has stood up for. by Lisa Pohlmann, Mary S. Booth, and Jim Pew Portland Press Herald op-ed It is not surprising that some members of Congress are attempting to pass sweetheart bills for industry that poses a real danger to public health and Read More
Daffodils, Tornadoes, and Global Warming
I’ve been traveling lately. I recently vacationed on the Florida Keys where it was so unseasonably hot one day in late February that locals remarked how odd it was. And I just returned from a meeting in Washington, D.C., where daffodils were already in bloom and the annual Cherry Blossom Festival has been moved up Read More
Supreme Court Ruling Garners Mixed Reviews from Maine’s Eco Groups
MPBN Radio news story Maine environmental groups are taking a mixed view of a U.S. Supreme Court decision handed down today on greenhouse gas emissions. In a unanimous ruling, the justices said states, cities and private entities can’t ask federal judges to put caps on how much toxic gas power plants can release. The ruling Read More
Fighting for the Right to Clean Air
The battle to address climate change is raging in Washington, as Big Oil and Big Coal pour millions of dollars in to block any progress on moving toward a clean energy future. But, they are not winning… yet. Several bills that would block the Environmental Protection Agency’s power to cut climate changing pollution were recently Read More
Court Tells EPA to Move Forward with Rules to Cut Climate-changing Pollution
Here is some much needed good news this month related to global warming. Earlier this month, a U.S. Court of Appeals agreed that new Clean Air Act regulations on climate changing pollution from cars, trucks, power plants and factories can go forward as planned in January of 2011. Many industry groups, including the National Petrochemical Read More
