* Natural Resources Council of Maine * Environment Northeast * Environmental Defense * Conservation Law Foundation * The Nature Conservancy * Environment Maine Today, the Maine Senate voted 35-0 for final passage of “An Act To Authorize the State’s participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative” (LD 1851, known as RGGI). Today’s vote makes Maine Read More
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SAD 9 Eyes Energy Audit
By Don Waterhouse, correspondent Kennebec Journal news story FARMINGTON — A year ago, School Administrative District 9 signed a contract with a Windham firm to upgrade energy controls in the district’s 10 buildings. At their meeting tonight, SAD 9 directors will get a report on work that has been done so far and will be 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
Taking Control of Electric Bill, Hour by Hour
By David Cay Johnston New York Times news story Ten times last year, Judi Kinch, a geologist, got e-mail messages telling her that the next afternoon any electricity used at her Chicago apartment would be particularly expensive because hot, steamy weather was increasing demand for power. Each time, she and her husband would turn down Read More
