By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story In a vote Thursday by a subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee, lawmakers pushed back on President Donald Trump’s proposal to de-fund the national Sea Grant program. The program, which is overseen by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, provides approximately $1.2 million each year… Continue Reading
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Thursday, June 29: “The Future of Maine’s Fisheries” Roundtable, Portland
The Future of Maine’s Fisheries: Threats Posed by Federal Budget Cuts How will Maine’s economy and communities be affected? Thanks to all who joined us for a roundtable discussion about the future of Maine’s fisheries. This event was free and open to the public. Thursday, June 29 6:00 – 7:30 PM Light refreshments at 5:30 PM Talbot… Continue Reading
Trump’s Proposed NOAA Cuts Imperil Wells Reserve in Maine
The president wants to end the funding that covers 70% of the operating costs for the wildlife sites used by the public, researchers and educators. by Colin Woodard, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story The Wells Reserve at Laudholm could become a casualty of a Trump administration plan to slash the budget of the… Continue Reading
NOAA Budget Cuts Would Have High Cost for Maine
Rolling back spending on fisheries management, marine research and weather forecasting would disrupt our state’s fishing industry. Portland Press Herald editorial Though funding for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration amounts to less than one-half of 1 percent of discretionary federal spending, it pays outsize dividends for Maine. The people at the center of our… Continue Reading
EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Questions Basic Facts About Climate Change
by Geoff Brumfiel Maine Public news story President Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency says he does not believe that carbon dioxide is a major cause of global warming. “I would not agree that [CO2] is a primary contributor to the global warming that we see,” Scott Pruitt said Thursday in an interview with… Continue Reading
Trump’s Proposed NOAA Cuts Imperil Wells Reserve in Maine
The president wants to end the funding that covers 70% of the operating costs for the wildlife sites used by the public, researchers and educators. By Colin Woodard, Staff Writer Portland Press Herald news story The Wells Reserve at Laudholm could become a casualty of a Trump administration plan to slash the budget of the… Continue Reading
Climate Change Deniers Aim to Silence Science
The new president wants to cut funding to agencies like NASA and NOAA. By Alan Caron Portland Press Herald column As Maine has struggled to build a 21st century economy, we’ve faced many challenges, most of them man-made and some geographic. We’ve been painfully slow to accept how the world is changing around us, and unwilling… Continue Reading
Earth Sets a Temperature Record for the Third Straight Year
by Justin Gillis and John Schwartzjan New York Times news story Marking another milestone for a changing planet, scientists reported on Wednesday that the Earth reached its highest temperature on record in 2016 — trouncing a record set only a year earlier, which beat one set in 2014. It is the first time in the… Continue Reading
What Qualifies as Scientific Authority?
“Listen, I’m not qualified to debate the science over climate change,” Speaker of the House, John Boehner (R-OH) “…this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn’t mean anything.” Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) “Reality has a well-known liberal bias.” Stephen Colbert, satirist Recently I sat dumbfounded watching Marco Rubio tell South Floridians about all… Continue Reading
