Speakers at the University of Southern Maine focus on Arctic challenges ranging from climate change to shipping safety.
Penelope Overton
Staff Writer
Penny is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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Portland incubator for marine-related businesses close to finding new space
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Maine’s lobster exports going full steam, with Asian market growing
Sales through June are more than double the year before as demand surges in Asian countries and sellers cultivate new overseas business.
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Sweden and Maine lobster: A love-hate relationship
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Lobster exporters looking to EU customers for help in averting ban
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The ‘lobster capital of the world’ faces a crucial question
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Sweden’s proposed ban on American lobsters clears first hurdle
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Amid signs of backlash over LePage, will tourists stay away from Maine?
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Gary Johnson tells Maine audience his Libertarian ticket offers voters ‘six-lane highway down the middle’
The candidate appears in Portland and Lewiston and says this week’s racially charged comments by Maine’s Republican governor should make voters reconsider their options.