Robert Duchesne, a former 6-term Democratic lawmaker from Hudson, is an outdoor columnist and registered Maine Guide who chaired the environmental and fish and wildlife committees during his legislative tenure.
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Mainers take to ‘anxiety baking’ to cope in uncertain times
With bad news coming from seemingly every corner – Washington, Wall Street, the environment – some breadmaking, cooking and consuming food is in order.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn
Environmental justice: Local group awarded funds
BOSTON — A Lewiston-based corporation was awarded $120,000 Thursday for work to address environmental justice issues. The Environmental Protection Agency said the Central Maine Community Health Corp. has been selected to receive the funds as part of an effort to address environmental and public health disparities in minority, low-income, tribal and indigenous populations. “Many rural […]
Posted inNation / World
Like plastic straws, balloons are raising concerns for the environment
NEW YORK (AP) — Now that plastic straws may be headed for extinction, could Americans’ love of balloons be deflated? The joyous celebration of releasing balloons into the air has long bothered environmentalists, who say the pieces that fall back to earth can be deadly to seabirds and turtles that eat them. So as companies […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
State cemetery for veterans may offer green burials
AUGUSTA — The iconic image of a veterans’ cemetery, which can be seen from Normandy to Arlington, has white headstones aligned with military precision in perfect rows in a carefully groomed setting, a place of honor meant to last the ages. That picture is, however, changing. The Maine Veterans’ Cemetery System, which has four state-run […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Bruce Poliquin backs GOP bid to smother carbon tax
Maine lawmakers split this week on a U.S. House vote to condemn the idea of a carbon tax to fight climate change, though no serious effort has been made to impose it — and there’s no chance the Republican-controlled Congress or President Donald Trump would approve. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin, a two-term GOP lawmaker from […]
Posted inMaine, sj-web
Great ponds, little access?
The public may own Maine’s many lakes and ponds, but that doesn’t mean the public can use them.
Posted inBusiness
Starbucks will stop handing out plastic straws by 2020
Starbucks, which doles out more than 1 billion straws a year, says it will phase out single-use plastic straws from its stores by 2020. The coffee giant said Monday that it will replace the ubiquitous plastic straw with recyclable “strawless lids,” as well as straws made from biodegradable materials, as part of a no-plastic-straws movement […]
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, River Valley, Rumford Falls Times
Woman paddling the Androscoggin for the health of it
MEXICO — Paddling down the Androscoggin River from Errol, New Hampshire, to Topsham, Maine, Jen Deraspe wants people to see the river through her eyes. She is blogging about her trip on her Nature Through Nurture Facebook page, and hopes to raise at least $5,000 to donate to mainerivers.org, whose mission is to protect, restore […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
California keeps the faith on climate, replacing Washington
Many on the right insist that California’s tough environmental rules are strangling its businesses. Evidence to the contrary emerged last week in news that California has just zoomed past Britain to become the world’s fifth-biggest economy. California must be doing something right. One of the things is vigorously confronting the perils of global warming. The […]