Many see seafood farming as a vital practice to feed the world, but others take issue with its environmental impacts.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Maine Gardener: Tackle invasive plants now, as they are easy to spot
The never-ending job: Tips on removing honeysuckle, multiflora (and sadly many more) from your garden.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Maine Gardener
Can you skip the raking this year? Should you?
Whatever you do, please skip that noisy, noxious, polluting leaf blower.
Posted inBusiness, Local & State
Whale scientists fire back – with science – at critics of new lobstering rules
Marine biologists disagree with a judge’s decision to block a seasonal closure in the Gulf of Maine and say there are ample data to justify the closure.
Posted inNation & World
EPA unveils strategy to regulate toxic PFAS
The Biden administration is launching a wide-ranging strategy to regulate toxic industrial compounds used in products including cookware, carpets and firefighting foams.
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One crucial mile creates wide gap for power line project
The New England Clean Energy Connect project’s future could hinge on whether it can cross over a short section of public land.
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Maine to investigate more than 500 sludge sites for contamination by ‘forever chemicals’
With $30 million in state funding, officials plan an unprecedented effort to test sites statewide for chemicals known as PFAS and assist people affected by the pollution.
Posted inNation & World
Major oil spill off Southern California fouls beaches
Crews are scrambling to stop the crude from going to wetlands and an ecological reserve.
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Canadian dam owner sues Maine over alleged effort to remove 4 Kennebec River dams
Brookfield Renewable argues state agencies are violating a binding river management agreement in their fight over the future of Atlantic salmon.
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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.