Don’t sweat the small stuff, columnist Tom Atwell vows to himself, but do play a part in fixing the big, ominous environmental picture.
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Posted inLocal & State, Politics
DEP official: Board to consider EV rules even as it urges Legislature to revise regulations
The Board of Environmental Protection delayed a vote on the rules this month, angering climate advocates who say Maine needs to act soon to limit gas-powered cars with their tailpipe emissions.
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Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Maine board wants to hand decision on electric vehicle mandate to Legislature
If lawmakers step in, it will further delay a policy that environmental groups had hoped would already have been decided.
Posted inFood & Dining, Vegan Kitchen
Plant-based food gets seat at U.N. climate summit’s table
Food finally made it onto the agenda of a United Nations’ climate change summit. The recent COP28 summit in Dubai was noted for a thick sheen of oil lobbyists, its controversial president (who heads a fossil fuel corporation), restrictions on protesters and the successful petrochemical industry push to reduce rather than phase out fossil fuels. […]
Posted inLocal & State
White Christmas is becoming more of a dream than a reality in Maine
The state’s winters are getting warmer and wetter, and there’ll be no white Christmas this year, again.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
State environmental board postpones meeting to consider electric vehicle mandates
The massive storm that tore through the state has forced a Maine environmental board to postpone a Thursday meeting that was to consider electric vehicle sales mandates.
Posted inLocal & State
Powerful storm latest example of bad weather made worse by climate change
The unseasonably warm weather that Maine is experiencing due to an increase in heat-trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere gave the wet winter storm its powerful punch, scientists say.
Posted inNation & World, News
More climate disasters are forcing millions of Americans to move, researchers say
In the U.S., the frequency of disasters causing at least $1 billion in damages has gone from roughly 3 a year during the 1980s to an annual average of 17.8 over the period from 2018 to 2022.
Posted inKennebec Journal, Local & State, News
State grant program helps central Maine communities meet climate goals
The Community Resilience Partnership was started in December 2020 to assist towns by providing technical and planning assistance and up to $50,000 to fund projects that align with the state’s climate goals to reduce carbon emissions and transition to clean energy.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, News
Standoff over future of fossil fuels pushes climate summit into overtime
Another compromise version of the cornerstone document, called the global stocktake, was being prepped Tuesday evening.