LEWISTON — The federal Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that its effort to clean up lead paint in the Lewiston-Auburn area of Maine could stretch into July. The EPA will arrive in the area in as little as a week, spokeswoman Emily Bender said. The agency has said the Lewiston-Auburn area, which has about 60,000 […]
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EPA focuses on Lewiston-Auburn landlords in new lead paint effort
LEWISTON — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has launched an effort to clean up lead paint in Lewiston-Auburn. Curt Spaulding, the EPA’s regional administrator in Boston, said the effort was unique to Lewiston-Auburn, the area with the highest number of lead-poisoned children in the state. The agency has put painting and renovation contractors, landlords and […]
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Gov. Paul LePage threatens to let EPA control tribal waters
AUGUSTA — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has threatened to give key regulatory powers back to the federal government, a move officials say could result in lengthy water permitting delays. The Portland Press Herald reports that LePage, frustrated with “overreach” by the Environmental Protection Agency over Maine’s tribal waters, sent a letter to the state’s congressional […]
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Regulators rarely enforce law that protects homeowners from lead
Thousands of Maine children and hundreds of thousands across the country are being exposed to poisonous lead paint because a federal law designed to protect them is barely being enforced. The 2010 law, the “Lead Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule,” requires that contractors must be trained in and follow lead-safe practices that prevent the spread […]
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J. Chandler: More protective ozone standard
In February, I sat on a panel with Sen. Susan Collins at an event hosted by the American Lung Association, Maine Conservation Alliance, the University of New England and MaineHealth. I had the opportunity to talk about my time as a division director for Maine’s Air Bureau, measuring and analyzing air quality. I told Collins […]
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M. Michaud: More government regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency seems to find a way to cause problems for people. The EPA is pressing ahead with regulations to significantly limit the pollution from newly manufactured residential wood heaters. Our ancestors used wood all their lives to heat. It was a way of life. Pollution didn’t seem to be a problem. The […]
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Lewiston city staff braces for tough audit of storm sewer system
LEWISTON — The city staff is bracing for a tough audit in April that will judge how well they’ve done keeping storm runoff and city sewer overflows out of the city’s streams and the Androscoggin River. Public Works Director David Jones warned councilors Tuesday that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and the Federal Environmental […]
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States fight for wood heat
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Smoke wafting from wood fires has long provided a familiar winter smell in many parts of the country — and, in some cases, a foggy haze that has filled people’s lungs with fine particles that can cause coughing and wheezing. Citing health concerns, the Environmental Protection Agency now is pressing […]
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Maine sues EPA over lack of water quality action
BANGOR (AP) — The state of Maine is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the federal agency has failed to approve the state’s water quality standards under the Clean Water Act. The state filed its lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bangor. The suit says EPA is responsible for approving Maine’s revisions to its water […]
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Wilton Tannery cleanup contract awarded
WILTON — The Board of Selectmen unanimously awarded the contract to clean up the Wilton Tannery property to a Farmington company. The lowest of the five bids received was $196,367 from E.L. Vining & Son of Farmington, Jaime Madore, Ransom Environmental’s lead engineer for the project, told the board Tuesday. The highest was $520,000, she said. […]