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Maine lobstermen sue federal regulators over right whale restrictions
Their trade association says the federal government used flawed science to develop a whale protection plan that poses grave harm to the lobster industry.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Maine providing $73 million in grants to stabilize state’s ‘crucial’ child care industry
Working families in Maine are struggling to find child care as facilities close or limit enrollment because of staffing shortages worsened by the pandemic.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Maine finds no violations related to salmon farm fish die-off
Cooke Aquaculture, a Canada-based fish farming giant, found thousands of fish deaths in August at sites it operates at Black Island and Black Island South.
Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Data breach of web company affiliated with far-right groups affects 190 Mainers
The hack of Epik on Sept. 13 by the online collective Anonymous exposed personal and financial information of 110,000 people nationwide.
Posted inBusiness, Maine Cannabis Report
San Diego cannabis dispensary disputes its marketing targets minors
Some accuse the company of targeting underage customers with its name – Cookies – and Sesame Street-style graphics, saying it evokes the Cookie Monster character.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
U.K. gas stations run dry as trucker shortage sparks hoarding
The government says it’ll issue thousands of emergency visas to foreign drivers starting next month.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Owners of Maine’s carbon-sponge forests asked to do more to blunt climate change
Two separate efforts are underway to maximize carbon absorption, one for smaller landowners and the other for forest industry heavyweights.
Posted inBusiness, Maine
Markets that pay woodland owners to store carbon are complex, controversial
Maine, the nation’s most heavily forested state, has been an early participant in so-called carbon offset markets.
Posted inBusiness, News
Central Maine business briefs: UMF names director of Campus Safety Grant
People & Places: Peter Onuf joins Board of Augusta’s First Amendment Museum