A unique coalition of organized labor and environmental groups that successfully passed a landmark offshore wind bill earlier this year are now signaling their unequivocal support for the responsible development of an offshore wind port on Maine’s coast. The coalition, including Maine’s largest conservation groups and labor organizations, today released the following statement highlighting Read More
Don’t Believe the Plastic Industry’s False Promises
Transparency is the enemy of the plastic packaging industry. In the 1980s, Big Oil (aka the plastics industry) began to purposefully lie about the recyclability of plastic so they could keep making and selling more plastic, and it worked. Plastic production has exponentially increased, and recycling rates for plastic have never exceeded the single digits. Read More
My Maine This Week: Sandy Stream by Sam Horine
With much of Maine having seen its first snowfall of the season last week, we thought it was the right time to share this photo by NRCM member and frequent My Maine This Week photographer Sam Horine of Skowhegan, Maine. Sam shares his photo of Sandy Stream in Highland Plantation, Maine. Sam said finding this photo Read More
My Maine This Week: Lobster Lake by David Preston
We know snow has arrived in some parts of Maine (we’d love to see your pics!), but we want to enjoy a few photos from late summer before the snow starts to accumulate. Longtime NRCM member David Preston of China Village, Maine, once again shares some gorgeous photos of Lobster Lake, just north of Moosehead, Read More
My Maine This Week: Cutts Island, Kittery Point, by Bennett Christiansen
Bennett Christiansen of Kittery Point, Maine, has been sharing with NRCM his stunning photographs from around the state for many years, since he was a teenager. About his latest photo, he writes, “While engaging in the art of photography the past decade, I consistently found myself enticed by this scene by the Cutts Island Trailhead Read More
NRCM Voter Guide 2023
Election Day is Tuesday, November 7th; do you know how you’ll be voting? The November elections are fast approaching, and this year there are eight questions on the statewide ballot. After careful review, the Natural Resources Council of Maine has taken a position on four ballot questions that will have an impact on Maine’s Read More
My Maine This Week: Westport Island by Dee Dow
NRCM supporter Dee Dow of Westport Island, Maine, shares her photo of a sunset as seen from the island. She writes, “I live on the western side of the island and am treated to sunsets like this often. This one is too beautiful not to share.” We couldn’t agree more, Dee! See more of Dee’s Read More
Federal Agency Removes Nearly All of Key Fishing Ground from Wind Energy Development in Gulf of Maine
October 19, 2023 (Augusta, ME) — Fishing groups, labor unions, and environmental organizations who came together to push a compromise bill that will advance responsible offshore wind in the Gulf of Maine scored a key victory when the federal government excluded nearly all of a key fishing ground called Lobster Management Area 1 from offshore Read More
Critter Chatter – Hit or Miss
When I visited with Don today, there were two new admissions in small cages in his living room: a young chipmunk and a gray squirrel, both likely HBC (Hit By Car) victims. The chipmunk wasn’t in good shape; he was hunched up in a corner of his cage, his fur very disheveled. Don said he Read More
