Spending comes as utility seeks rate increase that would cost Mainers $46.5 million NRCM news release Augusta, ME (January 16, 2020) A newly released campaign report filed late yesterday reveals that Central Maine Power (CMP) funneled an astounding $2.3 million to its Political Action Committee (PAC) during the last three months of 2019 in an Read More
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LUPC Decision on CMP Corridor Ignores Harm Done to Maine
NRCM news release January 8, 2020 (Orono, ME) – Maine’s leading environmental advocacy group, the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), issued the following statement from Clean Energy Staff Attorney Sue Ely regarding the decision today by the Land Use Planning Commission (LUPC) to certify to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that Central Read More
News & Noteworthy — January 2020
Happy New Year! Here is the latest round-up of news from the past week. January 2, 2020 NRCM Dip & Dash We’ve entered a new year but not before nearly 200 hardy Mainers braved the snow to run and swim in our annual Dip & Dash in Portland. The Clean Energy Transition NRCM’s Dylan Voorhees Read More
Maine Environment Fall 2019 Newsletter
Maine Environment Fall 2019: What’s Inside! In this issue of Maine Environment, we feature an important story by NRCM Sustainable Maine staff Sarah Nichols and Chrissy Adamowicz, about the fundamental problems Maine is facing in regard to recycling materials, and how we can fix it through an extended producer responsibility for packaging policy reform. Sarah and Read More
News & Noteworthy — December 2019
December 20, 2019 A Clean Transportation Future The Portland Press Herald wrote a helpful long read story in the Sunday edition exploring what it’ll take to reduce carbon pollution from the transportation sector. An exciting regional collaboration called the Transportation & Climate Initiative (TCI) is an opportunity to invest in more transportation choices for Maine Read More
Mainers Call for Fairness in Army Corps Review of CMP Corridor
NRCM news release December, 5 2019 (Lewiston, ME) — People from across Maine gathered in Lewiston to express their growing concern over the proposed Central Maine Power (CMP) corridor through Western Maine and call on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a rigorous environmental review for the controversial transmission line, as was done Read More
Monday, November 25: Megadams = Megadamage Forum, Farmington
The North American Megadam Resistance Alliance, the Natural Resources Council of Maine, and Sierra Club Maine cohosted an event at the University of Maine at Farmington on Monday night, November 25. NRCM co-sponsored this event featuring Canadian indigenous people sharing their stories about the negative impacts that massive Canadian hydropower dams are having on their Read More
Reflections On Our Work Together
On October 16, NRCM celebrated our 2019 Conservation Leadership Award recipients. The event took place in Portland, at the Jewish Community Alliance and was filled with warmth and celebration among our members and friends. It was truly an honor to recognize people so dedicated to helping protect the nature of Maine. I invite you to Read More
News & Noteworthy — October 2019
October 23, 2019 Here is the latest round-up of news from the past week. The Portland City Council voted on Monday night to ban the sale and distribution of plastic drinking straws, becoming the first Maine city to do so in an attempt to reduce the amount of plastic-based pollution clogging the world’s oceans and Read More
