By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story PATTEN, Maine — Nathan Richardson is seeing a new kind of customer. They’re not really there to buy tools. They don’t have local accents. Sometimes they come right up to Richardson or other workers at Richardson’s Hardware with lots of questions about local landmarks Read More
President Obama
A Flimsy Legal Attack on Clean Air
by the Editorial Board New York Times editorial In eight years, President Obama has established a strong record in fighting climate change, including ambitious fuel efficiency standards aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from cars and trucks. But one very important part of his strategy remains in legal limbo — the Clean Power Plan, a Read More
Maine Environmental Groups Praise Clean Power Plan Proposal
By Don Carrigan, staff writer WCSH news story Maine environmental groups say a court case heard in Washington could have a major impact on how Maine is affected by climate change. Twenty-four states are suing the federal Environmental Protection Agency over new Clean Power Plan rules from that agency. Oral arguments in the case were Read More
Maine’s Attorney General Among 18 AGs Defending EPA’s Clean Power Plan as Federal Appeals Court Hears Polluter Lawsuit Today
NRCM news release Today, outside the federal court building in Portland, Maine Attorney General Janet Mills and health and environmental leaders spoke in support of the EPA’s Clean Power Plan, which is being challenged in federal courts by a coalition of polluters and their allies. Today at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., Read More
Clean Power Plan Litigation in U.S. Court of Appeals
My remarks at today’s news conference about Clean Power Plan litigation in the U.S. Court of Appeals: Right now, judges at the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, DC are hearing oral arguments in a lawsuit brought by polluters and their allies against the EPA’s historic Clean Power Plan. I am proud to be joined Read More
Why Obama Is Right on Clean Energy
By William D. Ruckelshaus and William K. Reilly, Op-Ed contributors New York Time Op-Ed Last year, President Obama took aim at the nation’s largest source of carbon dioxide pollution, announcing a plan that would reduce these climate-changing emissions from the country’s power plants by one-third by 2030, from 2005 levels. It is an ambitious proposal to Read More
North Woods Monument “An Educational Opportunity” for Children, Residents Say
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story MEDWAY, Maine — The Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument needs a management plan, and Bruce Cox said he was happy to offer some ideas for it. The Medway School Committee member stood over a map of the monument’s five parcels on Tuesday placing Read More
John Paradis: Why I’m Wild About New Maine National Monument
By John Paradis Daily Hampshire Gazette, op-ed Later this month, my wife Denise and I will head north, where we often go when we want to get away from it all. We head to Maine. Maine to most people is lobsters and seacoast resorts, Kennebunkport, Freeport, outlet stores, L.L. Bean, and the Casco Bay towns Read More
Opinions Still Split on Tourism in Katahdin Woods Region
By Milton J. Valencia, Globe Staff Boston Globe news story MILLINOCKET, Maine — It has been a cherished land for so long, the majestic Katahdin woods overlooking this old paper mill town, the streams and the East Branch Penobscot River, the trails and turns that provide sweeping views of the fabled Mount Katahdin. Now the Read More
