The past few weeks have marked the receipt of several million dollars in federal funding being sent to Maine in…
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Nearly six months after the Maine Board of Environmental Protection (BEP) held its first public hearing on the proposed California-style…
President Joe Biden approved Maine’s request for a federal disaster declaration on Tuesday, a move that follows the severe storms…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills delivered her 2024 State of the State address Tuesday evening, offering few policy proposals that resonated…
A group of Maine lobstermen have asked the United States District Court for the District of Maine to temporarily block…
A proposal to prohibit natural gas companies from installing new natural gas infrastructure for Maine homes has resurfaced in the…
Maine’s Committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (ACF) failed to confirm the nomination of yet another member of the state’s…
As temperatures plunged below freezing for much of the country this week, there have been numerous reports of electric vehicles…
The Maine Department of Transportation (Maine DOT) announced Thursday that Maine will be receiving a $15 million taxpayer-funded grant from…
At a hearing on Monday, Maine’s committee on Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (ACF), held what was meant to be the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) finally issued a press conference on the devastating storm that left hundreds of thousands of Mainers…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) has postponed its expected vote on the controversial California-style vehicle emissions regulations,…
Winthrop Public Schools (WPS) is struggling to keep its fleet of four electric school buses on the road due to…
Employees of the Natural Resources Council of Maine (NRCM), a left-wing nonprofit active in Maine politics, are seeking to unionize…
Maine has the second fastest rising electricity costs of any state in the nation, only trailing behind California, according to…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) has now officially responded to the thousand-plus public comments it received on…
Both members of Maine’s delegation to the House of Representatives have signed onto a partisan letter requesting a $1.6 billion…
Last night, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill aimed at limiting the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) authority…
The New Rule Will Not Reduce the Dirty Air We Inherit from Other States The goal as stated in the…
“Taxation without representation is tyranny.” A common saying in New England leading up to the American Revolution, this was a…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (Maine PUC) is scheduled to hold two public witness hearings this month concerning Central Maine…
The Maine Board of Environmental Protection (Maine BEP) is expected to discuss the proposed controversial, California-style vehicle emissions regulations at…
Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DACF) was, until November 10th, offering free state park passes based exclusively on…
The State of Maine intends to develop the untouched Sears Island in Searsport to build and ship offshore wind turbines,…
Gov. Janet Mills and Maine’s congressional delegation sent a letter Thursday to the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) urging…
Legislators are poised to consider a bill concerning the purchase and sale of single-use plastic water bottles by state and…
The Maine State Legislative Council voted Thursday to reject a bill proposed by Rep. Joshua Morris (R-Turner) that would have…
The federal National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) may become the subject of yet another lawsuit if it moves forward…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden of Maine’s 2nd District slammed House Republicans Thursday after his proposed amendment to prohibit commercial offshore…
An international wind power company is pulling the plug on a major offshore wind development favored by the Biden Administration,…
Democratic U.S. Rep. for Maine’s First Congressional District Chellie Pingree announced Wednesday that she mended a staffers jeans in order…
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) announced a draft Wind Energy Area (WEA) on Thursday identifying over 3.5 million…
The following op-ed was submitted to the Maine Wire by the Republican members of the Energy Committee and reflects the…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Friday the latest round of grants awarded through the state’s Community Resilience Partnership, which since…
House Republicans announced Tuesday that they have launched an investigation into President Joe Biden’s Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm over…
Democratic lawmakers from southern Maine are crying foul over public meetings concerning the proposed Pickett Mountain mining project. The Land…
Gov. Janet Mills published the following radio address on Wednesday, finally weighing in decisively against a campaign by the Maine…
As part of the nearly $1 billion in federal funds Maine received from the 2021 American Rescue Plan Act, Gov.…
The sole study purporting to show that a massive $4.9 billion Aroostook County wind power project will benefit Maine ratepayers…
House lawmakers in Washington D.C. voted 222-190 in favor of a bill blocking states from attempting to eliminate the sale…
When the 170-turbine 1,000 megawatt King Pine Wind Farm in Aroostook County becomes operational near the end of the decade,…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills announced Wednesday that her administration has awarded $3.7 million in grant funding to projects that will…
Biden’s Secretary of Energy Jennifer Granholm had the police called on her over a dispute at a charging station at…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Nick Pope on August 30, 2023 A Danish offshore wind company with major projects…
In a less than 24-hour span this weekend, two more dead whales have been discovered off the northern Atlantic coast…
Only eight U.S. states can boast that all-electric vehicles exceed 1 percent of all vehicles registered there. None are greater…
AUGUSTA – Citizens turned out in droves Thursday morning to make their voices heard at the Maine Department of Environmental…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) is set to hold a public hearing at 9am on August 17…
The Mills Administration has made it a top priority to get Mainers driving electric vehicles (EVs) as part of its…
On Saturday, New Jersey lifeguards discovered a dead humpback whale washed ashore, the latest in a string of unexplained deaths…
Another week, another boondoggle from the Mills Administration on energy. Now, Mills wants to shift our electricity production from cheaper…
Maine is now on a path toward adopting vehicle emissions regulations akin to those currently on the books in California…
An alliance of groups representing New England’s fishermen is highlighting scientific research that suggests offshore wind development could have “population-scale…
Rising costs and logistical issues have led to a series of delays in recent weeks for at least 10 offshore…
Advocates for a ballot question this fall that would lead the state to take control of Maine’s power grid have…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills approved on Thursday a bill to authorize and fund the construction of a port on the…
Socialist Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Thursday endorsed a ballot question campaign that would in theory force the owners of…
State and federal initiatives to make home heating and cooling more environmentally friendly appear to be at odds with recent…
Avangrid, the parent company of Central Maine Power, agreed this month to pay $48 million to terminate a power purchase…
Solar power diehards in the Democratic Party have won their fight to protect a program that subsidizes large solar facilities…
One of the last remaining items of business at the State House this summer is what — if anything –…
A bill motivated by the discovery of a $1.5 billion lithium deposit in Newry, Maine, thought to be the world’s…
Gov. Janet Mills dealt labor unions a major defeat Tuesday when she vetoed an offshore wind port construction bill that…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – Will Kessler on June 23, 2023 Siemens Energy announced Thursday that it will be undergoing…
The Legislature voted unanimously this week to ban TikTok from all electronic devices owned or controlled by the state government.…
The state of Maine has lurched from short-term spending agreement to short-term spending agreement, often using pricey borrowing to pay…
The Maine House on Wednesday rejected a bill (76-71) that would have prohibited cities and towns in the state from…
The Maine Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) on Tuesday voted to approve electricity rate increases associated with a program that hikes…
The Maine State Legislature is expected to soon put its seal of approval on LD 1101, “An Act to Support…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) tweeted Tuesday night an image of her setting fire to a Republican energy bill that…
Price increases in New England energy markets are far outpacing demand for electricity, according to a report released Wednesday by…
The Daily Caller News Foundation – John Hugh DeMastri on June 2, 2023 The Biden administration on Friday ordered a 20-year…
Sen. Joe Baldacci (D-Penobscot) offered searing criticism of Gov. Janet Mills during May 23 committee hearings, alleging that the governor…
Legislative Republicans in Maine offered an amendment this week to LD 1347 in the hope of finding a palatable compromise…
Fox News host Tucker Carlson Monday night went to bat for the Maine lobster. He interviewed guest Rosie Moore, a…
Secretary of State Shenna Bellows confirmed this week that the effort to establish a “consumer-owned” utility in Maine, led by…
The cost for a gallon of heating oil in Maine has hit a record high. Mainers should expect to pay…
Maine, and the rest of New England, may face energy blackouts this winter due to sky prices for liquified natural…
The price of a gallon of No. 2 heating oil in Maine is back around $5.00 per gallon, according to…
On the final day of its October 2021 term, the Supreme Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) overstepped…
As part of Maine’s Climate Council, which is working to implement a four-year plan to decrease the state’s greenhouse gas…
On March 18, the Maine Legislature’s Committee on Energy, Utilities and Technology held a work session on Gov. Janet Mills’…
Note: I am teaching Environmental Policy this fall, for perhaps the last time. I first taught it more than 30…
The big picture of this rate increase and the surrounding conversation is simple: it is the fault of federal regulators, not CMP. Outside competitors are funding ads that are aimed to hurt CMP and blame them for something completely out of their control.
“The Invisible Hand” is a notion coined by Adam Smith in the context of economics, and in particular, the free-market…
Though the ban is a win for now, Mills’ next moves towards offshore wind must be vigilantly watched as future development plans take form just off of Maine’s shores.
Maine’s Committee on State and Local Government held public hearings last Friday on two bills that would require a legislative…
The legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (ACF) Committee recently held a public hearing on LD 324, “An Act to Limit…
Last week I poked the green hornets’ nest by testifying in support of LD 324, “An Act to Limit Public…
David Ismay, the Undersecretary for Climate Change within Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, resigned…