Although the coal, oil, and utility lobby spent $500 million over the past two years to defeat comprehensive climate and clean energy legislation, the shift to clean energy is underway and inevitable. Two big developments toward clean energy are worth noting. The New York Times reports that there is a growing movement in the Navajo Read More
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Citizens Affected by Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Visit Maine to Tell Story of Destroyed Mountains, Communities
Maine has connection to mining practice that is leveling oldest mountains on the continent Natural Resources Council of Maine and Appalachian Voices Maine does not have clean hands when it comes to the dirty business of coal operations, according to residents of Appalachia who traveled to Maine to describe the destruction being caused by mountaintop Read More
New Report Details Maine Deaths and Health Impacts from Coal-fired Power Plants
NRCM calls for further pollution reductions through EPA rulemaking, enforcement, and legislative action Natural Resources Council of Maine and Clean Air Task Force Augusta, ME; September 9, 2010 — In a landmark report released today, the Clean Air Task Force (CATF) has determined that in Maine, coal-fired power plant emissions cause an estimated 43 premature Read More
NRCM Gives People’s Choice Award to Wiscasset Coal Plant Activist
NRCM news release Augusta, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine is pleased to announce that Woolwich resident Willy Ritch is the winner of the 2008 Natural Resources Council of Maine’s People’s Choice award, for his work protecting beautiful Wiscasset from a proposed coal gasification plant. Last year, when Wiscasset was faced with a Read More
Maine on the Road to a Clean Energy Future: New England’s Largest Wind Farm Wins Approval While Voters Turn Down Massive Coal Plant
In the past 24 hours, two important decisions were made in different parts of the state that will help determine where Maine gets its energy in the future. Maine’s Land Use Regulation Commission approved a 57 MW wind farm to be built in Washington County, and Wiscasset residents rejected a coal gasification plant slated for Read More
New Voices Come Out in Opposition to Proposed Coal Plant
14 million pounds of coal a day would make Wiscasset the “grittiest village” in Maine Natural Resources Council of Maine * Back River Alliance Today, on the shores of the Sheepscot River in Wiscasset, the Back River Alliance hosted a news conference to highlight the growing opposition to a proposed coal-fired power plant and diesel Read More
NRCM Statement on Proposed Coal Power Plant in Wiscasset
by Dylan Voorhees, NRCM Clean Energy project director I am here today to announce the decision by the Natural Resources Council of Maine to oppose the coal gasification facility proposed by Point East for the town of Wiscasset. NRCM has many members in Wiscasset and the surrounding towns. They and many others asked us to Read More
Time to Chart a Course to Our Energy Future
Portland Press Herald editorial One of the Democrats’s top agenda items, now that Congress is back in session, is to create a fund to promote renewable energy and conservation by diverting money that was going to oil companies. That’s just one of many welcome changes in national energy policy that the new majority has pledged Read More
