Penobscot dam owner replaces faulty poles on line where July failure killed fish
The work comes as federal regulators near a decision on renewing the dam’s license.
Waste buried in the woods shows how hard it is to rehab Maine’s abandoned factories
What does it take to bring an abandoned factory to life? In Hartland, it starts by cleaning up asbestos, PCBs and buried hides nobody can say who owns.
Juniper Ridge wants to treat its contaminated wastewater 20 miles away
Juniper Ridge Landfill plans to move its PFAS treatment system off-site, requiring leachate to be trucked 20 miles to Hampden.
The family that fought a Maine landfill leaves their town behind
Five years after Debbie Cooper lost her fight against one of Maine’s most important landfills, her son’s family is also leaving Hartland.
Maine’s biggest dam owner faces reckoning after another Penobscot River fish kill
Brookfield Renewable is in the final stages of relicensing the Ripogenus Dam, located about 30 miles west of Millinocket.
Maine’s new strategy to stop another insect disaster in the North Woods
After a 26-year outbreak devastated Maine's forests, the state is testing a targeted attack on spruce budworms invading from Quebec.
The fungus that could save Maine’s trees one seedling at a time
A fungus found in surviving trees during a 1990s outbreak is now bred into 30 million seedlings planted in Maine since 2017.