When Heather Sanborn served in the Maine State Legislature not so long ago, she voted in support of granting credits…
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When your city has a “sustainability director” on the payroll, you can only guess what comes next. How about a…
When was the last time in modern history that a college student felt any sense of guilt for snatching utensils…
Maine politicians love to brag that 67 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources. Sounds impressive, right? It’s a…
Tired of your straw decomposing before you’re halfway through your drink? Sick of only being able to buy LED bulbs?…
On her second day as Maine’s new public advocate – the official responsible for representing the interests of low-income ratepayers…
The Portland International Jetport has been ordered to stop cutting trees near the runways until authorities can determine whether the…
Maine Gov. Janet Mills’ (D) Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is partnering with a Brunswick-based nonprofit organization…
The Senate, in a bipartisan fashion, voted Monday evening to confirm fracking executive Chris Wright as secretary of Energy. Senators voted 59…
10:55am State House, Augusta This morning the Maine Senate took up the nomination of Heather Sanborn to be Maine’s next…
President Donald Trump issued an executive order on Monday that will substantially reduce federal support for offshore wind power and…
Heather Sanborn, Gov. Janet Mills’ pick to serve as Public Advocate for the state, was confirmed by the Maine Legislature’s…
Maine leaders have decided that the state will not be increasing the minimum legal catch size for lobsters this July…
Maine’s Democratic Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (ME-CD1) says the wildfires raging in Southern California are the result of rising temperatures, stronger…
A bipartisan bill imposing an “impact fee” on megayachts has been introduced by Sen. Rick Bennett (R-Oxford) and co-sponsored by…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) has proposed elevating the Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) to a cabinet-level department as part of her…
A consulting firm based in Massachusetts has been awarded a $300,000 taxpayer-funded contract to advise the Maine Public Utilities Commission…
Going into the first session of the 132nd Legislature, lawmakers have already submitted two bills aimed at rolling back restrictions…
Lame-duck President Joe Biden’s administration unveiled more environmental regulations the day after Christmas, banning the manufacture of many natural gas…
New York is poised to fine energy companies billions of dollars in the name of fighting climate change under a…
Maine has been treated to a near non-stop barrage of demands that we acquiesce to the lucrative demands of the…
A little-known environmental provision in the fiscal year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) has no impact on military operations,…
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has issued a nearly $70,000, no-bid contract, set to last through all of…
The United States House of Representatives approved a bill Tuesday limiting the Department of Energy’s (DOE) authority to enforce energy…
Maine Governor Janet Mills’ Office of Policy Innovation and the Future (GOPIF) is paying $12,500 to a California-based nonprofit that…
Today, the word “nuclear” often sparks fear, with talk of nuclear weapons dominating headlines. This fear is understandable but misplaced…
Electricity Maine is set to begin sending out payments to eligible customers as part of a settlement reached with the…
Despite the hysteria over rising sea levels, allegedly caused by anthropogenic global warming, a comparison of satellite imagery of some…
Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey (D), facing a surprise challenge from the left-wing District Attorney of Kennebec County and still…
The Maine Climate Council has released an updated version of the state’s four-year plan concerning climate change, “Maine Won’t Wait.”…
A coalition of New England based think tanks released an extensive report Wednesday in collaboration with Always on Energy Research…
The University of Maine (UMaine) has decided to sell the Hutchinson Center to Waldo Community Action Partners (WCAP) following a…
The developers behind the controversial Yard South project in South Portland have withdrawn their application for special zoning permissions and…
President-elect Donald Trump has chosen former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin (R) to serve in his cabinet as the administrator…
The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday will hold the first competitive auction for roughly 850,000 acres…
Conflict of Interest: “a situation in which a person is in a position to derive personal benefit from actions or…
Federal officials have rejected Maine’s application for $456 million to construct an offshore wind port at Sears Island. According to…
Earlier this month, the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that all lead pipes nationwide must be replaced within the…
At a workshop on Tuesday the South Portland City Council will discuss a proposed ordinance that would eventually prohibit the…
The trash fire which started at a trash facility in Orrington on October 1 has finally been extinguished, according to…
The New England Fishermen’s Stewardship Association (NEFSA) will be sending Gov. Janet Mills a petition with over 2,500 signatures urging…
The Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) announced Thursday the results of ongoing efforts to test the surface water near…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey, the share of Maine households using oil as their primary source…
When LS Power withdrew its proposal to build a controversial high-power transmission line across Maine this summer, the news created…
The Maine Labor Climate Council, a purported coalition of labor unions pushing for offshore wind development in the Gulf of…
In the fall of 2023, Efficiency Maine announced that it would not be requiring homeowners to disconnect their older heating…
The federal Department of Environmental Protection (EPA) sent a letter on September 26 directing the U.S. Navy to “take any…
The Biden-Harris Administration signed on to a radical United Nations agenda calling for zero-carbon emissions and an end to fossil…
Maine has now launched a $36 million Home Energy Rebate Program funded by federal tax dollars allocated by the Inflation…
The federal Department of Transportation (DOT) announced Tuesday that Maine has been awarded nearly $1.5 million in grant funding to…
Maine’s Congressional delegation sent a joint letter to Navy Secretary Carlos Del Toro urging cooperation on the cleanup effort at…
The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry (DCAF) announced Monday that applications have now opened for a combined $3…
Gov. Janet Mills (D) announced Monday that the State has selected twelve new Land for Maine’s Future (LMF) conservation projects,…
On Monday and Tuesday, Gov. Janet Mills (D) attended the 45th Annual Conference of New England Governors and Eastern Canadian…
A combined $8 million worth of grant funding has now been made available “to help communities become resilient to the…
President Joe Biden touted offshore wind’s “progress” on his watch on Thursday despite the fact that the industry has struggled…
Maine has received a combined $33.8 million in federal funding across twenty-one projects designed to improve the state’s hydropower infrastructure.…
Volvo announced Wednesday that it has scaled back its plans to make only electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030. Instead, the…
Two members of Maine’s congressional delegation have urged U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Thomas Vilsack to change the eligibility…
Rising ocean temperatures have long alarmed scientists and caused Maine’s environmentalists to advocate drastic government actions, but their apocalyptic warnings…
Chalk another win for the conspiracy theorists… In new report from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)…
Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it will be shifting to a new strategy for the development of electric vehicles…
The State of Maine and the Federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) have reached an agreement on a floating…
As of next summer, Maine lobstermen will be subject to a new rule increasing the minimum legal catch size by…
The Biden administration locked in a gas stove rule on Monday after insisting that it is not trying to ban…
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…