December 2024
NRCM Sustainable Maine Program Manager Vanessa Berry is quoted in this Portland Press Herald article about the Board of Environmental Protection voting in support of Maine’s new Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) for Packaging rules. The bill to create Maine’s first-in-the-nation EPR for Packaging law, out of which these rules came, was signed into law in 2021. NRCM spearheaded the efforts to get this bill passed. Learn more about how we and our partners did it.
Hear from NRCM’s Climate & Clean Energy Director Jack Shapiro and Woods, Waters, & Wildlife Director Luke Frankel in this op-ed in the December 1st issue of the Portland Press Herald. In the new year, we will all need to continue to work to keep Maine’s strong environmental safeguards and track record in place.
November 2024
Four new electric vehicle (EV) chargers will be installed at the Ellsworth Town Hall soon.
NRCM Grassroots Outreach Manager Bronya Lechtman and members of the snowmobile and ATV community were featured in this WMTW news story about the November vote that passed the Maine Trails Bond. More than 520 organizations, towns, land trusts, and ATV and snowmobile clubs supported this first-ever $30 million bond in support of development and maintenance of Maine trails.
NRCM Climate & Clean Energy Director Jack Shapiro co-authored a recent Bangor Daily News op-ed with Jeff Marks, Executive Director of ClimateWork Maine, about the updated state Climate Action Plan. Read the full op-ed here.
October 2024
NRCM Climate & Clean Energy Director Jack Shapiro is quoted in these stories about the first offshore wind power leases sold in the Gulf of Maine:
You can also hear from Jack in this Down East magazine piece about creating an offshore wind port on Sears Island.
The first eight offshore wind leases in the Gulf of Maine will be up for auction next week. Read this front-page Portland Press Herald news story, featuring NRCM Climate & Clean Energy Director Jack Shapiro.
Thank you to Erin Victor for her mention of NRCM in a recent Bangor Daily News op-ed about reducing waste and moving to reuse in the state.
Last month, NRCM hosted our Protecting What We Love: A Celebration of Action for Maine’s Environment event, at which we honored this year’s Conservation Leadership Award winners, at Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment in Freeport. Thank you to the Portland Press Herald for sharing photos from that event here.
