Young climate activists pick the wrong target for failures to act on the environment.
climate change
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Wage climate fight with Maine’s forest products
Steel beams and concrete can be replaced with climate-friendly wood products.
advertisement
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Maine should take part in regional effort to cut transportation pollution
The Transportation and Climate Initiative will deliver economic, health and environmental benefits.
Posted inBusiness, Health, Local & State, Nation & World
Gov. Mills urges federal help on climate change for smaller, rural states
In a letter, she asks Congress to focus more on offshore wind, renewable energy and weatherization.
Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
Green Plate Special: As the North Pole melts, Santa is vulnerable
This year, offer him vegan cookies and oat milk, and help stave off climate change, in a small way.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Transportation in Maine should be about more than cars and trucks
To lower carbon emissions, our state has to change the ways it builds communities.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Scientists suggest fertility control as a way to combat climate change. Now that’s alarming.
The fact is that the world’s most disenfranchised people contribute very little to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Trump’s trolling of Greta Thunberg was petty bullying, but she is fair game for criticism
The climate activist is a public figure, and her age shouldn’t give her a blanket exemption from disapproval.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Maine undecided on joining regional plan to reduce vehicle pollution
The Transportation Climate Initiative proposes to reduce greenhouse gas pollution by capping and pricing tailpipe emissions throughout the Northeast.
Posted inLocal & State, News
South Portland planning director to leave after 30 years
Charles ‘Tex’ Haeuser, who has overseen planning and development in Maine’s fourth-largest city since 1990, announced he will leave the job in March and possibly pursue consulting work on mitigating climate-change impacts.