Penny Overton 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 has 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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PublishedAugust 13, 2018
Transgender advocates adopt lobster emoji
In the meantime, they are pushing an online petition for their own pink-and-blue emoji.
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PublishedAugust 10, 2018
Large pogy catch good news for lobstermen who feared bait shortage
The amount of bait fish landed this year was twice last year’s haul, reassuring lobstermen that they should be able to avert a bait shortage.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2018
Depleted stock sinks Maine’s bid to increase its fishing quota for lucrative baby eels
Regulators deny the request in a 13-5 vote, but praise the state’s efforts to stick to its cap on the catch and also agree to extra landings for a new aquaculture center.
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PublishedJuly 29, 2018
Some lobster exporters are feeling pinch of Chinese tariff
The effects of losing a key market ripple through the industry – and could worsen – but Maine’s other lobstering sectors are riding high.
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PublishedJuly 23, 2018
Caught up in tariff, lobster industry faces new threat: Higher trap prices
The extra tax on imported raw steel raises the cost of wire mesh for manufacturers, which haven’t passed it on to fishermen – yet.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2018
Those lobster license plates are supporting $340,000 in research on vital industry
The grants will be used to assess and support the state’s most valuable fishery amid changes in the ecosystem.
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PublishedJuly 17, 2018
Looming bait shortage poses another threat to Maine lobster industry
Regulators want to cap this year’s herring landings at last year’s levels, and slash next year’s quota of the most popular lobster bait.
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PublishedJuly 13, 2018
Biddeford rapper offers free tickets to fellow rapper’s movie debut in Portland
Rory Ferreira, who raps under the name of Milo, hopes to fill all 129 seats of a matinee Saturday of Boots Riley’s ‘Sorry to Bother You.’
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PublishedJuly 12, 2018
Fishing groups divided over proposed update to fisheries management law
An amendment could reduce fees and wait times for lobster sales to Europe.
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PublishedJuly 9, 2018
Lawmakers endorse sweeping medical marijuana reforms
By a wide margin, legislators override a veto by Gov. Paul LePage to push forward changes in the state’s medical marijuana industry.
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