Will Spur Jobs, Protect Wildlife, and Decrease Oil Dependence News release Augusta, Maine — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s standards for vehicle fuel efficiency and climate-changing pollutants are set to become final. These new standards will double the number of miles we can drive on a gallon of gasoline for new cars, SUVs, and Read More
Climate
Climate change and global warming pollution harm Maine people, wildlife, and our environment. Among the highest rates of childhood asthma in the nation, rising seas and severe storms battering our coastal homes and towns, warming and more acidic oceans threatening fisheries, too many “bad air days,” more and more tick-borne diseases, threats to our fall foliage and winter tourism industries—these are among the many health, environmental, and economic problems climate change pollution is causing here in Maine.
The Natural Resources Council of Maine is working to reduce climate-changing pollution by making Maine more energy efficient. We work to provide clean, renewable energy and cleaner more efficient vehicles that will reduce Maine’s contribution to air pollution and climate change to ensure Maine people and wildlife have clean air to breathe.
The Folly of Tar Sands Oil in Existing Pipelines in Maine
by Merrylyn Sawyer Bangor Daily News op-ed Recently three separate articles have appeared in the Bangor Daily News concerning tar sands oil and the possible use of the present pipeline that runs between Portland, Maine, and Montreal, known as the Portland Pipe Line. One article mentioned that the Montreal Pipe Line Ltd. and the Enbridge Read More
Tar Sands Disaster?
Big oil’s risky plan could have massive environmental impacts on Maine by Deirdre Fulton Portland Phoenix news story The activists, clad mostly in black, flowed slowly and silently down Battery Street in Burlington. They carried signs proclaiming their opposition to tar sands and big oil, and when they reached the front of the Hilton hotel, Read More
Reversing a Pipeline: Wrong Direction on Climate Policy
by Rep. Jon Hinck Bangor Daily News op-ed A summer that has seen record-breaking heat and drought across America also brings protests of a nearby energy-related proposal with bad climate impacts. A pipeline starting at the oil terminal in South Portland runs all the way to Canada. The Portland-Montreal Pipe Line currently carries conventional crude Read More
Pipeline Debate Prompts Raymond Beach Protest
By John Balentine Lakes Region Weekly news story RAYMOND – Residents unmoved by a company’s claims that a pipeline project impacting the Lakes Region has been scrapped formed a human oil spill on Raymond Beach Monday to protest what they say could be an environmentally disastrous initiative. The companies in charge of a pipeline that Read More
Mainers Rally on Anniversary of Worst Tar Sands Spill in History; Oppose Risky Tar Sands Oil in Maine
NRCM press release Maine citizens are turning out across Maine this week to oppose an emerging plan to pump dirty tar sands oil from Ontario, Canada through a pipeline in the beautiful lakes region in southwestern Maine to Portland, Maine where it would be shipped out by supertankers. The four rallies coincide with the two Read More
More Than 2 Million Comments Nationally and 15,201 Collected in Maine Support EPA Limits on Carbon
NRCM news release Bangor, Maine—The Natural Resources Council of Maine, Environment Maine, and a broad coalition of Maine groups supporting clean air safeguards, announced today that they have collected more than 15,000 public comments here in the state and a record two million comments nationwide in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Carbon Read More
Report Sounds the Alarm on Tar Sands Pipeline Scheme in Central Canada and New England
Broad coalition highlighting threats to Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Quebec, and Ontario from tar sands pipeline proposals PORTLAND, MAINE — A controversial new pipeline plan threatens drinking water and many beloved natural areas in Maine and across New England and Central Canada according to a new report released today. A broad coalition of 19 organizations Read More
Groups Raise Alarm Over Possible Tar Sands Pipeline
by Eric Russell, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story PORTLAND —Brooke Hidell of Casco has lived near the Crooked River for much of his life. He has fished and taught others to fish there. He understands the river’s role as a feeder into Sebago Lake, the main source of drinking water to residents of Read More