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
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NRCM and Other Conservation Groups Sue EPA Over Power Plant Air Toxic Pollution
WASHINGTON D.C. — Today, a coalition of state and national public health and environmental groups, including the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), filed a lawsuit [attached] in federal court here, seeking a firm and enforceable new deadline for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to require deep reductions in mercury and other toxic air pollutants Read More
“Urgent Fix Needed” for Flawed EPA Power Plant Cleanup Plan, Says NRCM, Lung Association
Natural Resources Council of Maine * American Lung Association of Maine News release AUGUSTA, ME – The Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM) and American Lung Association of Maine (ALA-ME) today called on the Bush Administration and Congress to make an “urgent fix” to an electric power plant cleanup plan struck down by a federal Read More
Mercury Findings Should Fuel Curbs
Kennebec Journal editorial Mercury is a highly potent neurotoxin. When ingested by humans, it can cause birth defects and impairment of brain functions. Scientists on Wednesday released a study that showed severe mercury contamination hotspots in the Northeast and maritime Canada, including the upper Kennebec and Androscoggin river watersheds. The study’s conclusions directly contradict the 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
States Win Air Quality Appeal
Portland Press Herald news story In a stinging setback for the Bush administration, a federal appeals court sided with Maine and 13 other states Friday and blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from easing clean air rules on aging power plants, refineries and factories. Industry representatives had lobbied hard for the rule changes, arguing that the Read More
Advocates Oppose Relaxing Wyman Standards
by Linda Maule The Forecaster YARMOUTH – The Natural Resources Council of Maine is joining local residents who oppose FPL Energy’s request to relax its nitrogen oxides limit at Wyman Station on Cousins Island. Nitrogen oxides are created at Wyman Station when the oil-burning plant creates electricity. The nitrogen oxides combine with other pollutants to Read More
Report Shows Some Northeast Power Plants Produce Too Much Global Warming Pollution
Groups call for 25% reduction through efficiency, clean power, good pollution cap Portland and Augusta, Maine — Today, the Natural Resources Council of Maine and Environment Maine released a report that shows how much global warming pollution comes from the power plants that supply electricity to homes from Delaware to Maine. “Actions at relatively few Read More
NRCM Applauds Sen. Collins’ Leadership Efforts to Force Senate Vote on EPA Power Plant Mercury Pollution Rule:
Rule Triples Allowable Mercury Levels, Harms Children Statement by Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director “Today, Senator Collins is joining with Senator Patrick Leahy to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving of the Bush administration rule that exempts mercury from power plants from being treated as a hazardous air pollutant. Thirty senators have signed the Read More
