NRCM Statement NRCM supports the Moosehead Region Futures Committee statement that “Permanent conservation and sustainable community development are the bedrock foundations of the Moosehead Region’s future health and vitality.” NRCM supports this effort by residents of the Moosehead region to secure permanent conservation and sustainable development that is appropriately located and meshes with the character Read More
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NRCM Releases Web-Based Flash Movie
“BIG MOOSETAKE: Plum Creek’s Plans to Spoil Moosehead” Augusta, Maine -Today, the Natural Resources Council of Maine released a two-minute, web-based “flash movie” designed to inform Maine people about the large developments proposed by Seattle-based Plum Creek Real Estate Investment Corporation in the Moosehead Lake region. View the movie, BIG MOOSETAKE: Plum Creek’s Plans to Read More
Buzz Caverly Receives Environmental Award
For protecting the wilderness character of Baxter State Park On a wall at the Natural Resources Council of Maine, we have displayed a quotation by Edward Abbey: “The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.” Wilderness found a defender in Buzz Caverly. Buzz was the guardian of Baxter State Park for Read More
Adam Lee Receives 2005 Environmental Award
For reducing air and greenhouse gas pollution by ensuring that cleaner, more efficient cars reach Maine consumers Adam Lee grew up in the car business. His grandfather started a small dealership in 1936, and his father began selling cars the day after he graduated from college in 1947. Today, Lee Auto Malls is one of Read More
W. Kent Olson Receives Lifetime Achievement Award
For his pivotal role in securing lasting protection for Maine’s special places Acadia National Park. The Allagash Wilderness Waterway. Hog Island. Grand Lake Stream. Most Mainers associate Ken Olson with only one of these special places, Acadia. Yet, each of them—and many, many more—has been restored or enjoyed new protections as a result of Ken’s Read More
Jenna Shue Receives 2005 Environmental Award
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
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
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
