by Don Carrigan WCSH-6 TV news story SOUTH PORTLAND, Maine (NEWS CENTER) — Maine environmental groups say there is growing awareness and concern about the problems of climate change, and say they hope that translates into pressure on the politicians. The groups held a climate change discussion at Southern Maine Community College on Thursday, to Read More
Global Warming Pollution
Industry Reps Discuss the Future of Petroleum Use in Maine
by Andy O’Brien Free Press news story Last week representatives from the oil and gas industry gathered in Portland for a forum on the economics, technology and infrastructure of Maine’s petroleum market sponsored by the Maine Energy Marketers Association and the Environmental and Energy Technology Council of Maine (E2 Tech). "In Maine we have a Read More
What’s Happening to All the Moose?
by The Washington Post Bangor Daily News news story Moose in the northern United States are dying in what scientists say may be the start of climate shock to the world’s boreal forests. The die-off is most dire in Minnesota, where ecologists say moose could be gone within a decade. But it extends across the Read More
Climate Change Threatens Much that is Life in the Maine Outdoors
by George Smith Kennebec Journal column Maine’s environment is our economy. We can have pickerel and payrolls. These tired — but true — slogans have defined much of our political rhetoric for decades. Perhaps it’s time to change the discussion. This was my thought as I sat in on a “conversation about the environment” hosted Read More
The Universal Notebook: Let’s Not Get Smug about Smog
by Edgar Allen Beem The Forecaster op-ed Maine air is not as healthy as a lot of people would like to believe. Just because we don’t have a visible haze of pollution hanging over us all the time does not mean we are breathing clean air. We aren’t. In terms of ozone, the smog created Read More
How Shifting Ocean Chemistry Threatens Maine
by Mick Devin Bangor Daily News op-ed An environmental crisis is looming on the marine horizon. Ocean acidification threatens Maine’s inshore fisheries, growing aquaculture industry and the jobs that rely on them. The culprit in this story is carbon dioxide. It’s changing the chemistry of the ocean and endangering shellfish like lobster, oysters, clams and Read More
New Carbon Emissions Rules Offer Great Benefits to Maine
by Tom Tietenberg Kennebec Journal op-ed A few years ago, I served on a panel as part of a National Academy of Sciences study titled “America’s Climate Choices.” One of the takeaway lessons from that study was that carbon dioxide has a very long residence time in the atmosphere, up to 1,000 years. It is Read More
Oil and Gas to Maintain Key Roles in New England Energy Picture
An industry analyst tells a Portland audience that gasoline, diesel fuel and home heating oil will continue to be in high demand for decades. by Tux Turkel, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story PORTLAND — Total energy use in the United States will grow by 10 percent by 2040, an analyst from the American Read More
Sea-level Rise Will Do $33 Million in Damage to Portland’s Commercial Street by 2050, Architects Say
By Seth Koenig, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story PORTLAND, Maine — Nearly $33 million in damage will be done to buildings along Portland’s low-lying — and high-traffic — Commercial Street area by 2050 because of steady sea level rise, a city architects group announced Tuesday. That figure jumps to about $111 million by Read More
