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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PublishedOctober 17, 2016
Japan gives visiting Mainers the scoop on scalloping
A delegation studies mechanized methods to see if they can be used in aquaculture back home using equipment funded by a grant.
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PublishedOctober 14, 2016
European Union decides it won’t ban imports of American lobster
Industry officials celebrate the apparent victory, saying it saved a $200 million annual export business that is critical to Maine.
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PublishedOctober 7, 2016
Scientific treaty emerges from Arctic Council
After a week of meetings in Portland, Arctic officials have put the final touches on an agreement to collaborate on research.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2016
USM launches program to help exporters cut red tape
The Maine Regulatory Training and Ethics Center will offer training in compliance and services for Maine businesses.
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PublishedOctober 5, 2016
Maine artists trade works for free passage across the Atlantic
Eager to forge bonds, Eimskip will showcase artwork it’s collected in a swap for transit.
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PublishedOctober 4, 2016
Proximity to Arctic wasn’t on Eimskip’s list of reasons for coming to Portland
The Icelandic company chose Portland as its American port of call because it saw the opportunities to expand trade in the North Atlantic.
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PublishedSeptember 27, 2016
Travel consultant Steve Hewins named leader of two hospitality groups
The industry veteran who built his travel agency into the state’s largest will guide the 1,200-member restaurant and innkeeper associations.
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PublishedSeptember 23, 2016
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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PublishedSeptember 23, 2016
Sweden and Maine lobster: A love-hate relationship
While Sweden has been seeking an EU ban on imports, the country’s spending on the delicacy has soared 523 percent.
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PublishedSeptember 16, 2016
Lobster exporters looking to EU customers for help in averting ban
The American and Canadian lobster industries are looking to countries like Spain, Italy and France to help scuttle the Swedish proposal to label lobster ‘invasive.’
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