2+ week, 5+ day ago   (444+ words) The Maine Public Utilities Commission announced the winning bids today for the Northern Maine Renewable Energy Development Program: a new 800-megawatt onshore wind farm in Aroostook County proposed by Clearway Energy Group, and a transmission line to Haynesville proposed by…...

3+ week, 14+ min ago   (1345+ words) This is because seawalls can be counterproductive — wave energy is reflected off them, increasing erosion at the base of the wall and accelerating erosion at its edges. The structures also block sand from being deposited on the dunes behind them....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (805+ words) Maine’s seagrass meadows are shrinking and thinning. And this isn’t the only place where seagrass is declining. These underwater meadows off Maine’s coast are part of a global, decades-long pattern of loss believed to be driven by development and human…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1482+ words) On a sticky August morning in Phippsburg, Cait Cleaver, an assistant professor of environmental studies at Colby College, crouched along a section of rocky shoreline that framed a circular expanse of deep green seawater. She gently brushed aside strands of…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1063+ words) The fish die-off that followed a Penobscot River dam shutdown in July rallied calls for stiffer regulations on the dam’s owner, which has been accused of repeatedly disrupting the water levels at a nationally renowned fishing and whitewater rafting destination....

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (1263+ words) Wendy Brennan agreed to participate in a study examining how arsenic exposure can affect children’s cognitive development primarily because her young daughter wanted the free T-shirt. It was 2009, and the family had lived on their property in the small Kennebec…...