For moving the Maine Legislature to address gaps in monitoring and managing emissions from waste-to-energy incinerator plants Jenna Shue, a senior at Hampden Academy, inspires all of us who believe that one person truly can make a difference. Jenna grew up within sight of a waste incineration plant and became concerned about potential health impacts. Read More
Environmental Group Decries Plum Creek Plan
by Cathy Johnson, NRCM North Woods Project Director Bangor Daily News op-ed ORONO – With one large exception, the satellite photo taken at night of the eastern United States and shown Friday at the University of Maine was peppered with small white dots that identify development. That exception was an approximately million-acre swath of land Read More
Most Mercury Found in Swordfish and Tuna Bought in Maine
NRCM: Warnings Needed Where Fish Is Sold, Clean-Up Still Needed AUGUSTA – Today, the Natural Resources Council of Maine released the results of a major mercury testing project which included samples of swordfish and tuna taken from Shaw’s in Portland ME. The swordfish and tuna steaks from Maine supermarkets contained the most mercury contamination of Read More
NRCM, NRDC Sue International Paper for Polluting Androscoggin River
AUGUSTA Maine – This morning, the Natural Resources Council of Maine and the Natural Resources Defense Council filed suit against International Paper (IP) in US District Court in Bangor. “We are suing International Paper because the Androscoggin River below their papermill in Jay is so polluted that it has never met the bare minimum standards Read More
Plum Creek’s Fine Print Important
by Cathy Johnson, NRCM North Woods Project Director Bangor Daily News Plum Creek, a real estate investment trust, has proposed to develop 975 house lots, two luxury resorts, a marina, three RV parks, and more in the beautiful Moosehead Lake Region in the heart of Maine’s undeveloped North Woods. If you listen to Plum Creek’s Read More
NRCM Applauds Sen. Collins’ Leadership Efforts to Force Senate Vote on EPA Power Plant Mercury Pollution Rule:
Rule Triples Allowable Mercury Levels, Harms Children Statement by Brownie Carson, NRCM executive director “Today, Senator Collins is joining with Senator Patrick Leahy to introduce a Congressional Review Act resolution disapproving of the Bush administration rule that exempts mercury from power plants from being treated as a hazardous air pollutant. Thirty senators have signed the Read More
NRCM and Local Citizens Oppose Seattle Corporation’s Plans for Massive Moosehead Lake Subdivision
Huge subdivision, luxury resorts, lack of significant conservation, would chop into heart of Maine’s North Woods NRCM news release Today, accompanied by local residents, the Natural Resources Council of Maine announced its opposition to Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation’s plan to change the character of Maine’s North Woods forever by scattering subdivisions with Read More
Plum Creek’s Massive Development Plan for the Moosehead Lake Region
NRCM news release Good morning. My name is Brownie Carson and I am the Executive Director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine. The Natural Resources Council is here today to announce our opposition to the largest development ever proposed for Maine. I am referring to Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation’s plans for Read More
Brownie Carson Presented with Bowdoin College’s 2005 Common Good Award
Everett B. “Brownie” Carson of Brunswick, Maine, Bowdoin Class of 1969, has been honored by the Bowdoin College Board of Trustees with the 2005 Common Good Award, presented June 4 during Reunion weekend. The Common Good Award honors those Bowdoin alumni who have demonstrated an extraordinary, profound, and sustained commitment to the common good, in Read More
