By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story TOWNSHIP 2 RANGE 9, Maine – Roxanne Quimby’s vision and tenacity were praised during a dedication ceremony and public celebration of the new Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument on Sunday. U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell praised the Burt’s Bees millionairess for Read More
Representative Chellie Pingree
North Woods National Monument Supporters Outnumber Opponents at Local Forum
By Susan Sharon MPBN news story It began as a day for invited speakers to denounce a proposed national monument in the Katahdin region and closed with a decisive show of support from local residents and business owners. Both a congressional field hearing and a public forum sponsored by national monument opponents were billed as Read More
Chellie Pingree Encourages Obama to Create National Monument in Maine
The 1st District representative writes a letter on the eve of a congressional field hearing on the topic in East Millinocket. The Associated Press Portland Press Herald news story WASHINGTON – U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree has written to President Barack Obama to encourage him to create a national monument in northern Maine. In her letter, Read More
Waste Not, Want Not
91. That’s the number of times the Empire State Building could have been filled from top to bottom with the amount of food wasted in the United States in 2010. And the problem gets worse every year. United States Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, representing Maine’s First Congressional District, recently unveiled and introduced legislation to tackle this Read More
Rep. Pingree Joins Vital Effort to Combat Food Waste, Climate Damage
Her legislation recognizes the world can throw away less, feed more and have a big impact on the planet. by John Mandyck, chief sustainability officer for United Technologies Corp., parent company of Pratt & Whitney in North Berwick Portland Press Herald op-ed FARMINGTON, Conn. — In a historic moment for the planet, more than 190 Read More
How We Can Divert Food from Landfills to Cupboards, Food Banks
By Christopher Burns, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story Nothing takes up more space in landfills than food. This isn’t just table scraps and coffee grounds. It’s also whole fruits and vegetables and even canned food, not all of which is unfit to eat. Americans sent a staggering 35 million tons of food to Read More
How Collins, King, Pingree, Poliquin Scored on Climate Change in 2015
By Sharon Tisher, Special to the BDN Bangor Daily News op-ed This year, 2015, was a pivotal year in the annals of the effort to combat climate change. The University of Maine’s Climate Change Institute published an updated assessment of climate change’s impacts on Maine’s weather, ecosystems and resource-based economy. The U.S. Senate voted 98-1 Read More
Beyond Our Borders
I’d like to cap off 2015 with a short note about a big topic: our place in the international community.
We Can’t Afford to be Blindsided by Ocean Acidification
A new measure would identify communities at risk if ocean changes were to affect the lobster fishery. By Chellie Pingree, a Democrat, represents Maine’s 1st District in the U.S. House of Representatives Portland Press Herald op-ed NORTH HAVEN — For over 40 years now, I’ve lived on North Haven Island in Penobscot Bay. In my Read More
