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.
Paper mill was the source of Maine river oil spill
Sappi denied being the source of the spill in messages to regulators, but it acknowledged that a Coast Guard analysis confirmed it.
Maine has ignored this homegrown substitute for heating oil
Two startups plan to turn Maine tree waste into heating fuel, with buyers lined up, even as the state’s climate plan leaves biofuels out.
Maine was warned about toxins in sludge decades before PFAS crisis began
Maine’s PFAS crisis is often portrayed as a result of regulators and health officials not knowing about the chemicals that were present in the sludge spread throughout the state, but there were concerns about its contents almost from the start of the state-run program, the BDN found.
How Donald Trump’s policies are slowing a Maine mill’s revival
Rising steel and fuel costs, as well as the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, have contributed to delays in rehabilitating Jay’s Androscoggin Mill.
Maine investigates oil spill along the Kennebec River
The spill may have spread over a mile of shoreline.