Public News Service news story AUGUSTA, Maine – Environmentalists in Maine are calling the Environmental Protection Agency’s single public hearing on the proposal to repeal the Clean Power Plan a sham. The two-day hearing began Tuesday in West Virginia, the largest coal-producing state east of the Mississippi. That will be followed by a public comment Read More
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Maine Group Decries Single Hearing on Proposal to Scrap Clean Power Plan
by Susan Sharon Maine Public news story Environmentalists, health groups and others are calling the Trump administration’s single public hearing on abolishment of the Clean Power Plan in West Virginia Tuesday “a sham.” The plan to require power plants to cut carbon emissions was a centerpiece of the Obama administration’s effort address climate change. But Read More
Administration’s Attempt to Repeal Clean Power Plan Needs to be Stopped
The EPA head is quietly trying to reverse the only federal limit on carbon emissions for power plants. by Tom Allen of Portland, co-chair of the Ocean Conservancy Board of Directors Portland Press Herald op-ed President Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, appears set on repealing the Clean Power Plan, America’s only federal limit Read More
Gutting the Clean Power Plan Puts Off the Steps Needed to Avert Climate Disasters
Bangor Daily News editorial The Trump administration can’t simply wipe the need to reduce the U.S.’s greenhouse gas emissions off the books. So, last week’s announcement from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt that the agency is repealing the Clean Power Plan is less an edict and more of a reiteration of the Trump administration’s Read More
As the “Tailpipe of the Nation,” Maine Deserves Cleaner Air
By moving to repeal the Clean Power Plan, Trump is doing the bidding of the coal industry and big polluters. By Conrad Schneider, advocacy director for the Brunswick-based Clean Air Task Force and Jacqueline Guyol, campaign organizer at Environment Maine Portland Press Herald op-ed Last week, the Trump Environmental Protection Agency took steps to eliminate the Read More
Maine and 8 Other States Pledge to Reduce Emissions by Another 30 Percent
by Fred Bever Maine Public news story Nine states in the region, including Maine, say they will set more aggressive limits on pollution by electricity generation plants. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, or RGGI, is a market-based cap-and-trade program that sets limits on carbon-dioxide emissions in participating states. Power generators can buy and sell emission Read More
Trump Moves Decisively to Wipe Out Obama’s Climate Change Record
The order will mandate a review of the Clean Power Plan, which restricts greenhouse gas emissions at coal-fired power plants. By Juliet Eilperin and Brady Dennis Washington Post news story WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump on Tuesday took the most significant step yet in obliterating his predecessor’s environmental record, instructing federal regulators to rewrite key rules Read More
President Trump Issues Executive Order Denying Climate Science – Statement by NRCM
Statement by NRCM Executive Director Lisa Pohlmann “President Trump’s Executive Order today rolls back years of climate progress and takes us completely in the wrong direction. His denial of climate science is unconscionable. Today he has put his climate denial into action by attacking the safeguards that protect the health of America’s families. “In the Read More
Here’s How EPA Cuts, Policy Changes Could Affect Maine
By Bill Trotter, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story President Donald Trump’s plans to shrink and redirect the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could have a severe impact on Maine where, according to one environmental advocacy official, state environmental programs already have been “cut down to the bone.” The Washington Post reported Wednesday that a Read More
