by Marina Schauffler | January 31, 2019
Maine faces a “brand-new day,” Gov. Janet Mills announced in her inaugural address, a time to tackle outstanding work – like limiting the climate change that is “threatening our jobs, damaging our health and attacking our historic relationship to the land and sea.”...
by Naomi Schalit | July 1, 2015
After several years of trying, a group of citizens from the state’s rural Unorganized Territories (UT) have won their fight to pass legislation that could give them greater say in the siting of large, industrial wind turbines in their communities. On Monday, Gov. Paul...
by Naomi Schalit | July 22, 2014
A deal to pump hundreds of millions of dollars into construction of wind energy projects in Maine and across the Northeast has been approved by Maine’s utility regulators. Tuesday’s vote by the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) was the second time the agency approved...
by Naomi Schalit | March 4, 2014
A 2012 deal worth hundreds of millions of dollars to expand wind energy projects across the Northeast was dealt a blow Tuesday by the Maine Supreme Court, which ruled that a state agency’s approval of the complex deal was invalid. The transaction included...
by John Christie and Naomi Schalit | June 19, 2013
“I feel like a citizen who is seen to be of less value than my neighbors,” said Karen Bessey Pease, after Maine Senate Democrats Wednesday sidelined an effort to give her and other residents of the state’s most rural areas a say in whether wind towers are built in...
