“People travel from across the globe to experience the natural beauty of America’s public lands – from Maine to Montana and across the nation................This is an important step forward in creating lasting protections for our public lands and continues to demonstrate that stewardship is not partisan,” said King.…

May 1, 2025

By Laurie Schreiber

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The Maine Public Utilities Commission approved Efficiency Maine's three-year plan to continue programs to improve the efficiency of energy use and reduce greenhouse gases.

But some programs could see hits from changes in federal funding or policies.

“The chief impact of federal action that is already happening is the delay in our expansion of our loan program for energy upgrades to homes and…

By: AnnMarie Hilton - April 30, 2025

Energy policy has moved quickly in the past few years as Maine has sought to achieve climate and affordability goals with deadlines that are not so far off. 

Rep. Gerry Runte (D-York) suspects there hasn’t been sufficient time to take a 50,000-foot view to see how all the pieces of energy supply and demand could plan and work together. He’s hoping the bipartisan…

Being done for climate change or worse.

Apr. 30, 2025 9:45 am

For years, chemtrails have been sold to us as just a “conspiracy theory.”

Now, RFK Jr. isn’t just confirming that “crimes” are happening. He’s exposing exactly who’s behind them.

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Whose money is EMT using to pay for the lawsuit??

Despite federal funding uncertainty, Efficiency Maine will continue to offer energy incentives

Efficiency Maine has a new three-year plan to continue the state’s push to reduce energy use from homes and businesses.

And despite uncertainty about federal funding, the agency says it has resources to offer rebates and other…

The US Attorney for D.C. wrote that search engines such as Google prioritize Wikipedia results. If the content is biased, unreliable, or sourced by entities that wish to do harm to the United States, search engine prioritization amplifies the propaganda.

It has also come to their office’s attention that generative AI platforms use Wikipedia data to train large-language models. It has the potential to launder information on behalf of foreign actors.

The article and full…

April 26, 2025

Mr. Turkel writes:

"Maine spends more than $4.5 billion a year on out-of-state fossil fuels that contribute to global warming. The fix is to power our economy with electricity from local, renewable energy sources."…

Bangor Newspaper Company Has Received More Than $2.4M from Mills Admin for “Public Affairs”

Steve Robinson

April 24, 2025

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How independent can the newspaper be when its corporate sibling is under contract to carry out government messaging? And critically, what stories are written — or, perhaps more importantly, not written — in order to protect lucrative government…

The Medieval Warm Period In Germany: Inconvenient And very Real

04/24/2025 • Mises Wire • William L. Anderson

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…

New Yorker Ratepayers Forced to pay 2.5x Market rate for Empire Wind Electricity …

Usually, Central Maine Power and Versant requests for electric rate changes before the Maine Public Utilities Commission are months long deliberations including the same few stakeholders voicing their opinions. Really boring.

FERC commissioner and former chair Willie Phillips has resigned from the five-member agency—leaving open the possibility of a Republican-controlled Commission.

• Without Phillips, a Democrat who often focused on issues of reliability, transmission expansion, and environmental justice and equity, President Trump now has a seat to fill. Currently, FERC is made up of two Democrats and two Republicans.

Senator Ron Johnson Links WTC Building 7 to 9/11 ‘Cover-Up’, Demands New Investigation Into the Attacks

Senator Ron Johnson is urging Congress to reopen the investigation into the events of September 11, 2001, focusing in particular on the unexplained collapse of World Trade Center…