Bangor Daily News editorial President Donald Trump has fired numerous Cabinet members, some for good reason, some for no particular reason at all. There is a growing list of reasons why he should fire Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt’s outright hostility to environmental regulations and his deference to corporate polluters were Read More
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Environmental Groups Decry Proposal to Repeal Clean Power Plan
by Susan Sharon Maine Things Considered This week Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed repeal of the Clean Power Plan, the cornerstone of the Obama administration’s efforts to address climate change. While not unexpected, the decision is coming under fire as ideologically driven and a boon for the fossil fuel industry at a critical Read More
NRCM Response to Pruitt Announcement of Rollback of Clean Power Plan
Statement of Lisa Pohlmann, Executive Director, Natural Resources Council of Maine “In Scott Pruitt’s ideal world, polluters have total control of America’s energy and environmental policy. That is a disaster for Maine, which is not only downwind from many of those polluters, but is also blessed with abundant clean, local, renewable energy supplies, rather than Read More
EPA’s Scott Pruitt’s Push to Roll Back Vehicle Emission Standards is a Disaster
Lowering the standards harms air quality, destabilizes the climate and is bad for Mainers. By Marina Schauffler Portland Press Herald op-ed As ineffectual as this president appears, his Cabinet members are stealthily orchestrating destructive changes. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt is intent on subverting that agency’s mission. At the behest of automakers, he is Read More
Bangor Woman, 80, Goes Solar at Home
By Meg Haskell, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story From her home on a corner lot in Bangor, Hope Brogunier, 80, is quietly staging a green revolution. Her side yard is a lightly tended jungle of shoulder-high raspberries, a fragrant, knee-deep drift of meadow anemones and a spiky sea of flowering goutweed. Bees bumble Read More
EPA Asked the Public Which Regulations to Gut — and Got an Earful about Leaving Them Alone
By Brady Dennis Washington Post news story Last month, the Environmental Protection Agency put out a call for comments about what regulations are in need of repeal, replacement or modification. The effort stemmed from an executive order issued by President Trump earlier this year instructing agencies to reexamine regulations that “eliminate jobs, or inhibit job 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
This is No Time to Sow Doubt about Climate Change
By The BDN Editorial Board Bangor Daily News editorial If there is anything leaders should agree on, it’s the need for empirical evidence. It was unsettling, to say the least, for the nation’s top environmental official to question the science of climate change, signaling a future of polluting policies and aversion to research. Scott Pruitt’s Read More
Denial and Consequences: Advice for Scholars and Scientists
“I’m sorry, Gemma. But we can’t live in the light all of the time. You have to take whatever light you can hold into the dark with you.” ― Libba Bray, A Great and Terrible Beauty Scott Pruitt’s immoral denial of the reality of climate change is part of an assault on science that Read More
