National Wildlife Federation * Natural Resources Council of Maine news release Reston, VA (March 31) – The nation’s leading conservation organization dedicated to protecting wildlife is honoring Everett “Brownie” Carson, executive director of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, with its National Conservation Achievement Award for exemplary leadership in protecting wildlife and natural resources. Brownie Read More
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NRCM Urges Senator Collins to Investigate Fraudulent Mercury Rule
In response to Tuesday’s Washington Post report that the Environmental Protection Agency decided to ignore Harvard University researchers’ analysis of health benefits from reducing mercury pollution from power plants, the Clean Air Task Force, National Wildlife Federation and Natural Resources Council of Maine, are renewing their request that Senator Susan Collins, as Chair of the Read More
16,896 Mercury-laden Car Switches Collected Under Maine’s Landmark Program!
NRCM news release At the urging of the Natural Resources Council of Maine, in 2002 Maine lawmakers passed a first-in-the-nation law to require carmakers to pay to collect harmful mercury switches from junked cars before scrapping them. Maine’s car mercury switch law was challenged in court by the carmakers, but the law prevailed. In December Read More
Environmentalist Honored in Portland
by Misty Edgecomb Bangor Daily News PORTLAND – Leadership requires the ability to balance the needs of your constituency with those of society as a whole — a dicey proposition, but one that Maine’s best-known environmental lobbyist, Brownie Carson, has managed for 20 years. Musing on the attributes of a leader during a Friday celebration Read More
Peter Brann and Ben Lund Receive 2004 Environmental Award
The Natural Resources Council of Maine recognizes with deep appreciation their efforts to defend Maine’s environment in the courts. Peter Brann and Ben Lund, partners in the Lewiston-based law firm of Brann & Isaacson, have brought their considerable professional skills, tenacity, and love of Maine to a necessary part of the advocacy process—using the courts Read More
Brownie Carson Honored for 20 Years at Helm of Natural Resources Council
A voice FOR the wilderness by Elizabeth Dorsey Times Record BRUNSWICK – Brownie Carson knows an environmental law can be repealed. He knows that a restored landscape can be contaminated again. But when a hydroelectric dam falls, there isn’t anyone who’s going to build it back up again. This is what Carson was thinking on Read More
Harry Dwyer and Andy Irish Receive 2004 Environmental Award
The Natural Resources Council of Maine recognizes with deep appreciation their extraordinary efforts to protect Maine’s forests. Liquidation logging—also called “cut and run” logging—is logging with no care for the future. Liquidators churn through the landscape—buying land, stripping off all the valuable timber, and selling it again within a short period of time. Liquidation logging Read More
Senators Advance $2 Million Spending Measure to Restore Penobscot River
News from the Penobscot Partners: A coalition of the Penobscot Indian Nation, American Rivers, Atlantic Salmon Federation, Natural Resources Council of Maine, Maine Audubon and Trout Unlimited News Release (Washington, DC; Bangor ME) Conservationists and the Penobscot Indian Nation praised Senators Olympia J. Snowe and Susan Collins (both R-Maine) for securing a $2 million line Read More
Maine Pregnant Women Warned: Children May Face Higher Risk of Developmental Disabilities from Mercury
Taxpayers End Up Footing Big Bill for Special Education Costs in Schools News release Youngsters in Maine could be suffering an above-average rate of developmental disabilities as a result of the federal government’s failure to take steps needed to curb lake and river-polluting emissions of mercury, according to according to a new report released today Read More
