A new bill that promises to stimulate the development of offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine strikes all the right notes.
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Clarence Page: How your gas stove was drafted into the culture wars
The rumor was simply too tantalizing to be encumbered by anything as quaint and tiresome as facts.
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Letter to the editor: The PFAS Brunswick really needs to worry about
As a resident of Brunswick, I have been struck by the care and attention the Town of Brunswick is making regarding the concerns for the presence of PFAS in the artificial turf installation proposed by Bowdoin College. However, there is a much greater PFAS problem facing the town that has not been given similar attention. […]
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Joe Guzzardi: Interior Department’s misguided ‘Restoring America’ program
A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive Order 14008, which announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water – 41.5 million acres per year – by 2030. On May 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior published “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” a preliminary report about what’s […]
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Phil Kerpen: Biden’s second student loan bailout scheme is even worse
President Joe Biden isn’t waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on his last $400 billion student loan bailout before rolling out another, even more costly plan (oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 28, and it has been blocked by lower courts for now.) Biden’s new plan to force taxpayers to pay for other people’s […]
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Our View: Welcome Corps a welcome development
The new State Department program should help us to maximize our most precious resource: goodwill.
Posted inMaine Voices, Opinion
Maine Voices: We need more grid capacity – and we need it now
Grid-enhancing technologies are already in place and proven in regional transmission systems across the U.S. and Europe. Maine must be next.
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Commentary: Trump and Facebook are frenemies who can’t let go
Allowing the former president back on the social platform would be risky, but both sides could use the revenue.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
The Conversation: How flood forecasting in real time, with block-by-block data, could save lives
THE CONVERSATION — The extreme flooding and mudslides across California in recent weeks took many drivers by surprise. Sinkholes swallowed cars, highways became fast-moving rivers of water, entire neighborhoods were evacuated. At least 20 people died in the storms, several of them after becoming trapped in cars in rushing water. As I checked the forecasts on my cellphone […]
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Maine Voices: Is the Doomsday Clock about to move closer to midnight?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ clock was first set at the start of the Cold War. On Tuesday, we’ll find out how much closer the world is to self-destruction in 2023.