By Kevin Miller Bangor Daily News news story The former owner of the HoltraChem factory in Orrington has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court ruling requiring the company to pay for a study of mercury contamination in the Penobscot River. In the latest legal twist of what is already a landmark environmental Read More
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NRCM Responds to Decision on Lawsuit
Effort to Clean Up the Androscoggin River Will Continue NRCM News Release The Natural Resources Council of Maine today expressed disappointment in yesterday’s court decision to dismiss, on administrative technicalities, NRCM’s lawsuit against International Paper. NRCM said that it would not give up on its efforts to compel International Paper to reduce its pollution of Read More
Residents Weigh in on Allagash Plan
Bangor Daily News news story AUGUSTA – Hours before sunrise Friday, Colleen McBreairty and three family members got into a car and began the nearly six-hour drive from Allagash to Augusta to deliver a message. “The Allagash River is not someone else’s playground, it is our heritage,” McBreairty told a committee of lawmakers considering a Read More
DEP Found in Violation of State Law
AG: Documents withheld in Androscoggin cleanup Bangor Daily News news story An investigation by Maine Attorney General Steven Rowe’s office has found that Department of Environmental Protection staffers violated the state’s public records law by not making available documents from private meetings with paper company officials. In response, Gov. John Baldacci announced Friday that workers Read More
State Reaffirms Commitment to “Wild” Allagash Wilderness Waterway
News Release AUGUSTA, MAINE – Citizens, sports people and conservationists from all parts of Maine are pleased that today the state has reaffirmed its responsibility to manage the Allagash as a “wild” river area and has committed to revise its management plan to “incorporate the intent of the federal “wild’s river designation.” The Memorandum of Read More
