Aug 22, 2011 | Business Impact, Business News, Environmental, News
By Kevin Miller, BDN Staff ELLSWORTH, Maine — A new report commissioned by the state suggests that Maine can significantly increase logging of softwood trees over the next 20 years, providing a boost to the wood products industry while still maintaining a healthy,...
Aug 16, 2011 | Biomass, Business Impact, Economics, Environmental, Federal Regulations
The EPA has released its timeline for the MACT reconsideration period. By Lisa Gibson | July 28, 2011 Although the U.S. EPA had already announced in February that it would allow a reconsideration period for certain aspects of the Maximum Achievable Control Technology...
Jul 22, 2011 | Call to Action, Editorials, Environmental, Federal Regulations, National Park
By Cheryl H. Russell, Special to the BDN The noose is getting tighter. I attended the recent meeting in Millinocket where I listened to Roxanne Quimby extol the virtues of a Maine Woods or North Woods National Park. Mayors from Estes Park and Grand Lake, Colo., were...
Jul 22, 2011 | Business Impact, Call to Action, Environmental, Federal Regulations, National Park
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff MILLINOCKET, Maine — The Katahdin Area Chamber of Commerce supports a study of the feasibility of creating a national park near Baxter State Park, its president said Wednesday. With members Deb Roundtree and Thomas Malcolm absent, the...
Jul 21, 2011 | Environmental, Federal Regulations
WASHINGTON — Citing the worries of a Maine business, Sen. Susan Collins and Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden of Oregon introduced a bill Wednesday that would delay new federal regulations limiting emissions from industrial boilers. The bill would give the Environmental...
Jul 19, 2011 | Business Impact, Environmental, National Park
By Nick Sambides Jr., BDN Staff MILLINOCKET, Maine — Roxanne Quimby sees a national park as a jobs creator, not an employment killer… …peaking before more than 200 people at Stearns High School on Monday, the noted environmentalist…presented a vision...