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A section of Route 1 in Mid-Coast region was shut down Friday after a tractor trailer truck carrying a wind…
Maine has awarded nearly $6 million worth of taxpayer-funded grants to businesses and nonprofit organizations impacted by the severe storms…
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded Maine $147 million to construct a multi-day energy storage system in Lincoln…
U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) has been extremely vocal in her climate change alarmism, including a new push on social…
Sens. Angus King (I) and Bill Cassidy (R-LA) have introduced legislation that would allow working waterfronts to claim a thirty…
Gov. Janet Mills (D), alongside several members of the federal government, announced Friday that Maine has been awarded a $69…
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced Friday that Maine will be receiving a total of $4.3 million in federal…
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) joined a lawsuit earlier this week against the federal Environmental Protection Agency…
Oral arguments were heard Thursday by the First Circuit Court of Appeals in a lawsuit against the Department of the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that Maine will receive $6.6 million in federal taxpayer funds to reinforce its power…
An offshore wind turbine project operated by Avangrid and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners broke apart this week, scattering debris throughout Massachusetts’…
As Maine gears up to spend billions of dollars in taxpayer money subsidizing offshore wind turbines, similar projects proposed or…
The Cumberland County Sheriff’s Department is currently searching for suspects who used construction vehicles to rampage through a solar farm,…
Last year, LD 1895 “An Act Regarding the Procurement of Energy from Offshore Wind Resources” passed, which got the ball…
The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will soon be hearing a case concerning the extent to which federal agencies…
The heavily taxpayer-funded floating offshore wind technology developed by the University of Maine at Orono and touted by the Mills…
Crony capitalism — driven entirely by Maine Democrats and far-left ideological extremists — has corrupted Maine’s energy market, and the…
Climate activists continued their spree of vandalism, adding Stonehenge to the list of numerous cultural icons, including famous paintings, vandalized…
New England’s power grid operator, ISO New England Inc., declared a level 1 emergency alert on Tuesday as a severe…
Maine’s businesses are about to be hit with massive cost increases — in some cases of more than $50,000 for…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Tuesday that $2.4 million worth of grants have been awarded to municipalities throughout the state…
President Joe Biden has pledged to install 500,000 public electric vehicle (EV) chargers around the U.S. by 2030, but logistical…
Maine’s Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (CD-01) on Wednesday applauded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for announcing a $7.7 million…
The Maine Forest Service (MFS), housed within the state’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry’s (DACF), has been awarded two…
The Biden administration has granted a request from the State of Maine to lease 15.2 square mile in the Gulf…
The U.S. Department of the Interior has announced a series of public meetings following its Proposed Sale Notice (PSN) for…
The Maine Department of Transportation (DOT) has submitted a request for millions of dollars in taxpayer money to fund the…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) signed an executive order Tuesday establishing a commission to develop the state’s first plan for “long-term…
York has become the first town in Maine to ban single-use plastic utensils after more than 58 percent of residents…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Thursday that applications are now available for small businesses and municipalities seeking state funding to…
The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) announced Tuesday that it plans to take legal action against the federal…
Members of Maine’s Congressional delegation recently moved in support of extending the lifespan of the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP), a…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Thursday that funding applications are now available for working waterfront properties that were damaged a…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced the release of an independent study which claims that her renewable energy push has driven…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) is urging the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC) to delay a proposed increase to…
The U.S. Department of the Interior on Tuesday announced their proposal to lease nearly one million acres in the Gulf…
Democratic Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) took to X Wednesday to slam the Biden administration’s recent approval of a massive foreign-owned…
Maine’s recently defeated electric vehicle (EV) mandate tried to put the electric car before the battery. The citizen’s petition delivered…
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved more than $7 million in taxpayer funding for renewable energy and…
Michigan’s Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer announced on Wednesday that the state’s Palisades nuclear power plant, which closed down in 2022,…
Among radical ideas destined to run aground, “hard rudder left,” are recyclable diapers, solar-, wind-, and Flintstone cars, snowplows pulled…
The recent destruction of a massive solar farm in Texas highlights the fragility of “renewable” energy infrastructure, and has raised…
A proposal requiring legislative oversight for agency rulemaking related to vehicle emissions standards — including the establishment of “zero-emission requirements”…
Last month, Maine lawmakers killed a bill that would have stopped a regressive energy program and lowered energy costs for…
The South Portland City Council on Tuesday approved an order to spend nearly $15,000 to lease three new electric vehicles…
The Biden administration released a map Friday of a two million acre Wind Energy Area (WEA) in the Gulf of…
The Legislature is considering a bill that would give state lawmakers the final say on the Maine Board of Environmental…
A massive $2 billion energy transmission line through New England has been scrapped after the company undertaking the project deemed…
Lawmakers in Augusta have shut down a bill that would have created a new tax deduction allowing Mainers to subtract…
Maine Senator Angus King, a self-described independent who caucuses with Democrats, has introduced legislation that would ban energy exports, which…
$5.4 million worth of grants from the state government have been awarded to municipalities throughout Maine to “protect vulnerable infrastructure…
Maine politicians announced Tuesday that the state has been awarded $10 million in taxpayer funding to subsidize the installation of…
A Warren lawmaker who works for the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) refused GOP requests to recuse himself…
Maine’s Committee on Energy Utilities and Technology (EUT) held a public hearing on Tuesday on a bill which could strike…
Several recently acquired electric school buses have been pulled off the road as a result of potentially dangerous malfunctions and…
Gov. Janet Mills (D-Maine) announced Tuesday that she had designated the historic, and undeveloped Sears Island for a 100-acre development…
The following is an op-ed from Representative Reagan Paul: If you had a dollar for every time it was said…
For the first time in twenty years, the death of a North Atlantic Right Whale has been linked to Maine…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills has proposed creating an “Office of New Americans” to bring 75,000 low-skill workers to Maine, but…
Far left activists have successfully blocked a proposed mining project in remote Township 6, Range 6 (T6R6) that would have…
Elected officials in Maine are considering proposals that would allocate millions of dollars in response to destruction caused by the…
A co-founder and former CEO of a sustainable fuel company pleaded guilty Thursday to wire fraud in connection to a…
Maine has been awarded a $4.4 million from the federal government to improve the “resilience” of the state’s electrical grid,…
The past few weeks have marked the receipt of several million dollars in federal funding being sent to Maine in…
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…