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Posted inBusiness, Local & State, News
Lobstermen tell regulators: Give us fewer buoy lines, but let us fish them how we want
Flexibility is the only way Maine’s diverse $485 million fishery can survive, they say at a hearing in Deer Isle.
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Posted inLocal & State, Nation & World, News, Politics
U.S. House unanimously passes bill to address ocean acidification
Maine Democrat Chellie Pingree’s measure moves to the U.S. Senate, while state lawmakers appear likely to pass Gov. Janet Mills’ climate package.
Posted inAnimals, Local & State, News
Scientists link warming of Gulf of Maine to decline in right whales’ food supply
Copepods, the flea-like creatures the whales feed on, have sharply declined with rising water temperatures.
Posted inLocal & State, Politics, Source
Climate bills call for Maine to reduce emissions to 80% below 1990 levels
Seven hours of testimony provide a glimpse into the scope and impact of proposals to rein in greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, factories and motor vehicles.
Posted inLocal & State, News
Democrats looking to finally tackle climate impacts to Gulf of Maine
Lawmakers are optimistic bills to implement bipartisan commission’s 2014 recommendations will advance after years of delay.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Hydroelectric dams produce green energy? Think again
Building such dams in Maine would violate federal and state environmental laws, for good reason.
Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
NOAA report warns Arctic is in ‘most unprecedented transition in human history’
Tuesday’s data sound the alarm on the second-warmest Arctic on record.
Posted inLocal & State, News, Science
Gulf of Maine’s 3rd-warmest year on record harms puffins, turtles and kelp
The effects on species that thrive in cold waters provide glimpses of the damage that rising ocean temperatures can do, but the federal and state response remains weak.
Posted inLocal & State, New England, News
Changing climate to put further pressure on New England, federal report predicts
It says ‘iconic fisheries’ in the Northeast, including lobster, face a bleaker future because of rising acidity levels in the ocean.