Some recreational gold prospectors aren’t shouting “eureka” at the Maine Land Use Planning Commission’s proposal that would close off certain bodies of water to motorized equipment used in mining the precious metal. The commission voted Jan. 14 to post the proposed Chapter 10 revisions to the National Recreation and Park Association’s Consistency and Recreational Gold […]
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Maine mercury contamination trial set to start
BANGOR (AP) — A federal trial is beginning this week to determine whether a chemical company responsible for dumping mercury from a closed plant in Orrington will be required to clean contamination from along the banks of the Penobscot River and the mouth of Penobscot Bay. The trial scheduled to start Tuesday in U.S. District […]
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FDA taking another look at mercury in seafood
WASHINGTON — The Food and Drug Administration is updating its advice for pregnant women on the appropriate levels of mercury in seafood. Commissioner Margaret Hamburg says the agency won’t require mercury labels on seafood packages. Hamburg said the agency will update guidance on mercury in different varieties of seafood and what that means, a long-awaited […]
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Mercury in Androscoggin River won’t affect trout fishery management
BETHEL — A Maine fisheries biologist said late Tuesday afternoon in Gray that mercury being discharged from a Superfund site into the Androscoggin River in New Hampshire won’t intrinsically affect how Maine manages its trout fishery in the river’s upper section. Francis Brautigam of the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said he wasn’t […]
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Maine’s high court to hear environmental cleanup dispute
AUGUSTA (AP) — Maine’s highest court is scheduled to hear arguments in a legal dispute over the environmental cleanup of the former HoltraChem Manufacturing Co. plant in Orrington. The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/NxTqzi ) reports that the Supreme Judicial Court will hear oral arguments Tuesday on an appeal by Mallinckrodt LLC, a St. Louis-based pharmaceutical company […]
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Scott Carpenter, 2nd U.S. astronaut in orbit, dies at 88
“Conquering of fear is one of life’s greatest pleasures and it can be done a lot of different places,” he said. His wife, Patty Barrett, said Carpenter died Thursday in a Denver hospice of complications from a September stroke. Carpenter, who lived in Vail, Colo., was 88. Carpenter followed John Glenn into orbit, and it […]