The Climate Monitor newsletter is a weekly roundup by The Maine Monitor of Maine’s most urgent environmental and energy-related news. The newsletter is delivered by email Friday mornings and the story portion of each edition is archived below.
Republican lawmakers want to put a moratorium on dam removals
Three bills would aim to preserve Maine hydroelectric dams at all costs. Regulators say they clash with existing laws and undermine environmental protections.
Sen. King fumes at climate change being nixed from annual threat assessment
For more than a decade, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence included the mounting impacts of climate change in its annual reports on threats to national security.
What’s behind that organic label?
A look at what "regenerative," "natural," "non-GMO project verified" and other food labels mean.
Lawmakers open to nuclear as clean energy, skeptical of “new nuclear”
Much of a legislative conversation centered around to what extent the state should be investing in emerging technologies.
Feds recommend four Kennebec River dams continue operating with minor fish passage modifications
The report has been criticized by groups that worry the dams will result in the collapse of endangered Atlantic salmon and sturgeon populations.
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