The projects will produce enough energy to power about 4,500 homes.
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Vital services that rely on MaineCare struggle to compete for workers
In a tight labor market exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic, managers of care facilities funded by the state’s version of Medicaid say hiring has never been harder.
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Portland-based Wex mandates vaccinations for all in-office workers
The policy comes a few weeks before a federal rule requiring vaccinations or weekly COVID tests for workers at large companies is to take effect.
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Portland sports tech firm KinoTek scores $2.1 million investment
The company, which has developed a platform to help clinicians rapidly obtain data on their clients’ movement, received the money from a Florida investment fund.
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Hannaford opens ‘virtual convenience store’ with fast delivery
Customers can use the Instacart third-party shopping service to order groceries for 30-minute delivery.
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Maine lobster fishery has key sustainability label reinstated
A year after its certification was revoked, the Gulf of Maine lobster fishery is once again certified sustainable by the Marine Stewardship Council.
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Homeownership not among pandemic’s major economic casualties in Maine
Foreclosures are creeping back up since a pandemic-related federal moratorium ended, but experts say a drastic spike is unlikely.
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Maine utility regulators order preliminary probe of CMP management structure
The Public Utilities Commission has asked Central Maine Power to produce a ‘performance plan’ that outlines how the utility will maintain progress on recent improvements and address concerns raised by a recent audit.
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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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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.