The administration called for oil companies to pick spots where they’d like to drill.
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Bezos makes first donations from $10 billion Earth Fund for fighting climate change
Bezos, the founder and chief executive of Amazon, gave the money to established environmental groups, as well as groups concerned with environmental justice.
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Company plans biorefinery for zero-emission heating oil in Maine
Biofine Developments Northeast Inc. of Bangor has formed a partnership with Sprague Resources LP to produce a patented biofuel made from forest product waste.
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Groups file lawsuit against Army Corps of Engineers over CMP corridor analysis
The Appalachian Mountain Club, Natural Resources Council of Maine and Sierra Club Maine allege the Army Corps failed to rigorously assess the transmission corridor project’s environmental impact.
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Mill spills over 30,000 gallons of chemicals into Penobscot River
Chemicals spilled into the river through a ruptured underground sewer line and a failed floor drain.
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Incentive program launched to swap out old wood stoves in Cumberland County
The American Lung Association is offering a voucher worth $1,000 to those who replace their high-polluting wood stove with a cleaner-burning one.
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Group pushes to close loophole in Maine’s ban on out-of-state waste
Environmentalists and grassroots activists say regulations let hundreds of thousands of tons of waste from other states go into Maine’s largest landfill.
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Maine businesses host online forums on climate change action
The next session, on confronting climate change in Maine’s natural resource sectors, will take place Thursday from 10 a.m. to noon.
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Poland Spring seeks new packaging materials derived from Maine’s woods
The Poland-based bottler is collaborating with the University of Maine to find alternative packaging that would lessen its use of petroleum-based products.
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Smoke from wildfires in the West reaches East Coast and even Europe
Plumes from deadly and record-breaking fires are being caught in the atmospheric jet stream and carried across the United States.