By Theo Stein Portland Press Herald op-ed There’s been Sturm und Drang aplenty over the Land Use Regulation Commission’s decision not to approve a 90-megawatt wind- power project proposed for a roadless mountain tract near Sugarloaf Mountain. That’s to be expected and, one could argue, even healthy. After all, these are grand issues at stake. Read More
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Global Warming Plan a Priority
by John Richardson, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story AUGUSTA – A plan to limit global warming pollution from power plants — the first such effort in the United States — is about to reach Maine’s Legislature. The Baldacci administration has been negotiating for about three years with eight other Northeastern states to create Read More
PUC Chief Urges Cut in Use of Electricity
By Colin Hickey, Staff Writer Morning Sentinel news story WATERVILLE — Maine Public Utilities Commission Chairman Kurt Adams had a grandfather who was fanatical about not using a single kilowatt hour more of electric power than he needed. In his grandfather’s household, Adams told those attending a business breakfast on Thursday at Thomas College, grandchildren Read More
Climate Change Bearometer
Bangor Daily News editorial The Bush administration has for years ducked the issue of climate change and how human activities are contributing to the planet’s warming. So, it is no surprise that when the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service recently proposed, after a court-ordered review, to list polar bears as a threatened species, the agency Read More
Connecting Dots of Climate Change is Bleak Business
By Daniel T. Masterson Portland Press Herald op-ed Fear can mobilize the masses. Even more so if people truly believe that their fears are founded. I believe that the recent wave of unusually warm weather has been terribly scary. If you connect the dots of climate data from around the country, things begin to look Read More
State Lights Way Toward Lower Electricity Costs
By Tux Turkel, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story KENNEBUNK – Medical researchers rely on the molded polystyrene laboratory plates coming off the line at the Corning Inc. manufacturing plant here, so they have to be free of cracks and scratches. New lighting recently installed in the factory makes it easier for workers to Read More
Pay as You Pollute
By John Richardson, staff writer Maine Sunday Telegram news story A growing number of Mainers and other Americans are buying their way to more “carbon neutral” lives. Less than $150 can cancel out the pollution produced to power the lights and appliances in a typical Maine home for one year. Another $75 a year might cover Read More
State considers cap, trade plan solution to CO2
By Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story BANGOR – Maine officials are debating whether to follow the lead of other Northeastern states hoping to generate a financial windfall from a regional pact to curb greenhouse gas emissions from power plants. Eight states including Maine have signed onto a first-in-the-nation agreement that aims to cap Read More
Oakhurst takes milk run to the 21st century
Portland Press Herald editorial Two years ago, Oakhurst Dairy owner Stan Bennett handed fleet manager David Green a copy of Gov. Baldacci’s carbon challenge and said: “Meet it.” Easier said than done, Green must have thought. The challenge required northern New England’s largest dairy company to cut its carbon emissions 15 percent below its 2000 Read More
