PORTLAND — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency wants Maine power plants to reduce emissions by 13.5 percent in 16 years, as part of a national plan to reduce emissions by 30 percent by 2030. The proposed rule signed Monday by EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy seeks to meet the national goal by giving states until June […]
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Supreme Court upholds EPA effort to limit air pollution drifting east
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday handed the Obama administration an important victory in its effort to reduce power plant pollution in more than two dozen Midwestern and Southern states, which blows downwind and leads to unhealthy air. The decision caps a decades-long effort by the Environmental Protection Agency to find a legally acceptable […]
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Environmentalists decry proposal to loosen smog rules; paper mill officials say change will spur job creation
AUGUSTA — Business groups squared off against environmentalists and health experts Tuesday during a hearing on a plan by the state Department of Environmental Protection to exempt Maine from some anti-smog regulations. The change would ease the process of industries seeking to develop or expand in Maine by removing a requirement that they buy expensive […]