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PublishedMarch 29, 2024
EPA sets strict emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks and buses in bid to fight climate change
The new rules for heavy trucks and buses come a week after the EPA announced new automobile emissions standards for passenger vehicles.
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PublishedMarch 22, 2024
Proposal to give lawmakers final say over Maine’s electric vehicle standards sails through committee
The committee unanimously approved a bill declaring electric vehicle rules to be the responsibility of lawmakers and not the Board of Environmental Protection, an appointed citizen board that rejected EV rules the previous day.
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PublishedMarch 21, 2024
Higher temperatures mean higher food and other prices. New study links climate shocks to inflation
By 2060, the climate-triggered part of inflation should grow, with global food prices predicted to increase 2.2 to 4.3 percentage points annually, the study said.
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PublishedMarch 20, 2024
Maine board rejects mandate to boost electric vehicle sales by 2032
Suggesting lawmakers should take up such sweeping changes, the Board of Environmental Protection votes 4-2 against the rules on the same day that the Biden administration rolls out the country's strongest-ever limits on tailpipe pollution.
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PublishedMarch 17, 2024
Fort Lauderdale is looking at raising roads to battle rising seas
A controversial road-raising project is already underway in Miami Beach.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2024
Fatal heat wave strikes unspoiled swath of Great Barrier Reef
Water temperature data suggests the toll of this event could approach that of 2016, when some 30% of the reef’s corals died after suffering through what were then unprecedented levels of heat stress.
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PublishedMarch 13, 2024
Activists say Maine public workers’ retirement system is failing to divest from fossil fuels
But the officials who decide how to invest the retirement funds of Maine's government employees said fully divesting from fossil fuel companies would violate their constitutional duty.
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PublishedMarch 11, 2024
In New York City, heat pumps that fit in apartment windows promise big emissions cuts
Heat pumps have been mainly an option for owners of houses. But new designs are making them practical for apartments, too.
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PublishedMarch 10, 2024
Coastal Maine towns, businesses question whether to rebuild or retreat after January storms
In Machias, officials still haven't returned to the town office and aren't sure if they ever should.
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PublishedMarch 5, 2024
A whale native to the North Pacific is sighted off New England. Climate change could be why
The Northwest Passage, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans through the Arctic Ocean in Canada, has lacked ice in the summertime in recent years, enabling gray whales to travel through it.
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