by Laura Poppick | July 12, 2018 | Environment, Money
A malnourished, stranded harbor seal pup along the rocky shore in Harpswell. Photo by Tristan Spinski. With inconsistent funding, Maine groups scramble to address uptick in marine mammal deaths and strandings The government has tasked groups with rescuing and...
by Daniel Neumann | February 16, 2018 | Environment, Transparency
The Trust for Public Land, Knights Pond, Cumberland Center, Maine. With Tax Bases Eroding, Some Rural Communities Say Land Trust Conservation Comes At Their Expense In his State of the State address last week, Gov. Paul LePage continued his attack on the tax-exempt...
by Naomi Schalit | March 8, 2017 | Health, Lead Paint Danger
Renovations of older buildings with lead paint on their walls is one of the major ways people in Maine get lead poisoning, which can cause lowered intelligence in children, lifelong behavior or attention problems, hearing deficiencies, kidney damage and slowed body...
by Lance Tapley | September 18, 2015 | Energy, Environment
Editor’s note: This is the final story in a three-part series investigating the Irving corporate presence in Maine and New Brunswick and its implications for the state’s future. If the giant, ever-growing Irving corporations were to have a larger presence in Maine,...
by Lance Tapley | September 16, 2015 | Energy, Environment
Editor’s note: This is the second story in a three-part series investigating the Irving corporate presence in Maine and New Brunswick and its implications for the state’s future. SAINT JOHN, NEW BRUNSWICK — If you cruise down the superhighway that crosses this...
