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Despite some claims that wind and solar are less expensive than conventional power, the opposite is true. Wind and solar benefit from far more subsidies than other power sources, which merely shift their high costs to taxpayers rather than directly to customers’ electricity bills. Also, the intermittent and often unpredictable nature of wind and solar power impose substantial costs on the grid, requiring other power sources to frequently ramp up and down – quite inefficiently – to cover for…

The termination letter said Wolfe's Neck Center for Agriculture & the Environment failed to pay at least 65% of its climate-smart agriculture grant directly to farmers.

April 21, 2025

Penelope Overton

Portland Press Herald

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After nearly three months of frozen payments, the U.S. Department…

Julia Tilton

April 18, 2025

The National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program was brought to a halt by the Trump administration in February. But states have interpreted federal guidance differently.

If you’re driving an electric vehicle up I-95 or 295 these days, particularly in York or Cumberland counties, odds are you won’t have to travel far before hitting a public charging station.

But head north and the stations taper off. Until recently, $5…

By Jennette Barnes,

Ben Berke / The Public's Radio, Miriam Wasser / WBUR

Published April 18, 2025 at 2:51 PM EDT

Vineyard Power President Richard Andre in Vineyard Haven. (Liz Lerner/CAI)

Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked to fulfill a…

The Castine college, which offered nuclear engineering until the mid-90s, is bringing the major back this year and received a $1.5 million gift to endow a chair of the program.

April 14, 2025

Riley Board Press Herald

The Maine Maritime Academy in Castine is bringing back a nuclear engineering program that it dissolved in the 1990s as the market for nuclear power changed.

“As nuclear power phased out for a little while, a lot of plants shut down,…

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Trump Takes Aim at the Heart of the Climate Industrial Complex

Ten Environmentalist Myths

Capping Carbon Admissions: The Biden Administration is Accused of…

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published April 1, 2025 at 5:36 PM EDT

The developer of Maine’s first offshore wind array has paused the project amid the Trump administration’s backlash against the industry.

Pine Tree Offshore Wind asked to suspend negotiations with state regulators on a deal to sell power from its planned 12-turbine floating development in the Gulf of Maine.

The company requested the pause "due to recent shifts in the energy landscape that have in…

Environmental groups claimed the Army Corps of Engineers did not assess the controversial power line rigorously enough before determining it would have 'no significant impact' on the environment.

April 1, 2025

Hannah LaClaire

Portland Press Herald

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A federal judge has decided not to revoke permits for the controversial New England Clean Energy Connect corridor, effectively…

Can Nuclear Energy Help Big Tech Meet Data Center Needs?

Carbon-free nuclear is “the only thing left in the toolbox for utilities,” Morningstar analyst says.

Ivanna Hampton

Mar 25, 2025

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The surging need to feed power-hungry data centers is reviving interest in nuclear energy. As the momentum for artificial intelligence…

Why use this ridiculously expensive energy scheme in the first place?

March 25, 2025

Diana DiGangi

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If sited in the correct locations, around eight 1,200 MW offshore wind farms could be connected to the New England grid and operate simultaneously at full power without first constructing new transmission infrastructure and without significant curtailment, said a…

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Kate Cough

March 21, 2025

Much of a legislative conversation centered around to what extent the state should be investing in emerging technologies.

A few months ago, I was walking my dogs and listening to an episode of Volts, a podcast and newsletter about clean energy and politics from former Grist and Vox writer David Roberts. The episode was an…

Maine lawmakers advance effort to seek money for more EV subsidies

Republicans, who have criticized state efforts to promote electric vehicle sales, opposed tapping a regional source of funding. Maine exhausted its money for EV rebates in November.

March 20, 2025

Stephen Singer

Portland Press Herald

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With its money for electric vehicle rebates depleted, Maine’s…

Published Thu, Mar 20 2025

Sam Meredith

Maine Public | By Peter McGuire

Published March 19, 2025 at 4:08 PM EDT

Lawmakers on the Environment and Natural Resources Committee have voted 10-2 against supporting a measure to conserve Sears Island entirely.

The bill, from Rep. Reagan Paul, R-Winterport, would extend a conservation easement that covers three quarters of the state-owned island onto the remaining parcel, set aside for commercial development under a 2009 agreement.

But a majority of lawmakers said…

How the local debate over solar has grown more heated in Maine

by Elizabeth Walztoni

March 18, 2025

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If someone told Christina Heiniger several years ago that a solar farm was coming to her hometown of Trenton, she would have thought it was great news.

But after three solar farms were proposed in the roughly 28-square-mile town — including one project that looked to span 300 acres — she…

And how about visual and sound protection from giant onshore wind turbines? Hopefully all federal freebies presently handed over to the constellation of criminals will stop wind projects once and for all. Has not the "temporary" wind Production Tax Credit introduced in the early 90's exceeded all possible definitions of "temporary", or are decision makers simply way too buyable? DOGE it.

Bill…

Time now to put and end to onshore wind by terminating all federal freebies for this coterie of criminals.