The U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) on Tuesday will hold the first competitive auction for roughly 850,000 acres…
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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…
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…