New England Legacy Press Members Hold Convention To Bemoan The Death Of Their Lazy Journalism

By Ted Cohen

March 14, 2026

Funny how the very newspapers that are failing are the same ones that don’t cover news.



The annual convention of the New England Newspaper & Press Association featured a speaker who said that “for the first time in American history, trust in journalism is now lower…

By Tux Turkel

Published on: March 13, 2026

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Maine and New England must choose between two divergent paths for how to generate electricity in the coming years, according to two noteworthy reports released this winter that come to very different conclusions.

Despite their differences, both reports agree on one thing: New England’s already high…

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The plant would be built next to the densely populated Munjoy Hill neighborhood, raising concerns about emissions, exhaust stacks and other environmental impacts.

March 14, 2026

Portland officials learned this month that the developers of the city’s eastern waterfront — a 10-acre project that’s been in the works for over a decade — plan to build a natural gas-fired cogeneration plant to provide electricity, heat and hot water to the…

ISO-NE data reports rthat the average natural gas plant in New England emits 0.3924 tons of C02 per megawatt per hour of operation.

RGGI reports that plants will be assessed a tax of $24.99 per ton of C02 emitted

0.3924 X 24.99 = $9.81 per megawatt.…

WHEN HOUSE DEMOCRATS first floated a plan to take the teeth out of the state’s next big deadline for slashing greenhouse gas emissions, Gov. Maura Healey did not have much to say about it.

Instead, she wanted to talk about reducing household electricity and gas costs.

“I haven’t seen the outlines of any specific plan on that,” she said in November, three days after CommonWealth Beacon …

Maine electric ratepayers are ordered to reach into their pockets and come up with $103,430,218 to fund the bureaucracy known as Efficiency Maine Trust for the year July 2026 to June 2027, up from $46,910,468 in…

Refund RGGI Money Back to Maine Ratepayers too

Massachusetts House passes landmark energy bill with deep cuts to Mass Save, sending it to Senate

Jordan Wolman, CommonWealth Beacon

February 26, 2026

HOUSE DEMOCRATS HAVE passed a major energy bill that aims to cut rising utility costs that have…

After Eversource divested in Revolution Wind, the prior contract cost could reach $285 million. 

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Eversource Energy is a major New England utility company with joint headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, and Hartford, Connecticut. It serves millions of customers across Massachusetts, Connecticut,…

UPDATE on 3/6/26: 

https://robinsonreport.substack.com/p/janet-mills-rips-dr-oz-and-denies

2/27/26

May we also suggest there be investigations into any and everything "green?"

Mills attempt to secure extra…

By Libby Palanza

March 6, 2026

Maine’s Environment and Natural Resources (ENR) Committee has unanimously voted to reject a proposal that would have overridden local ordinances on renewable energy development.

Originally introduced as an entirely different measure, a sponsor’s amendment shared last month overhauled LD 2174 by striking and…

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ISO-NE is conducting a transmission upgrade project to enable a resource mix that isn't in the ISO-NE territory to move their resource generation into ISO-NE territory, notably 1200 megawatts of Aroostook County Wind.

If that isn't a plan, what is?…

As described last week, the Maine PUC issued a second request for proposals that would essentially allow other New England states to buy into Aroostook Wind on the same terms as Maine utilities. Giving away much of Maine’s most valuable renewable energy resource will be unacceptable to most Mainers, and we thus can’t rely on the PUC regulatory process to create maximum public benefits.

For that we need a public agency using tax-free bonds that significantly lower project costs, not to…

A ‘drafting error’ in a 2025 law could force dozens of residents to forfeit investments in community solar. Lawmakers are working on a fix.

March 3, 2026

Daniel Kool

Staff Writer

Gregory Anderson thought he’d done everything right.

In 2021, the Litchfield resident bought shares in a community solar development from ReVision Energy. With a one-time investment of about $16,000, he was able secure about 2.5 kilowatts, enough to cover nearly…

March 1, 2026

ESG stands for “Environmental, Social, and Governance.” On paper, this three-letter nightmare is sold as a neutral investing system that helps big asset managers evaluate risk and force “responsible” corporate behavior. But as with all things “woke,” the reality is very different. In the real world, ESG has become something. It’s a power weapon that allows these giant firms to pressure businesses into adopting a wide…