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| PORTLAND—Beach closings and warnings due to bacterial contamination increased in Maine for the second straight year, according to the Natural Resources Defense Council’s annual report released today by Environment Maine. | |
| BANGOR—Environment Maine Research & Policy Center, the Maine Environmental Policy Institute (MEPI) and Toxics Action Center released a report entitled, "Agribusiness and Atlantic Salmon: The Effects of Large-scale Blueberry Production on Endangered Atlantic Salmon", detailing the threats that pesticides used by the blueberry industry have on the species. | |
| PORTLAND—Only 10 ocean fish stocks in New England – currently 28 percent of all federally managed ocean fish stocks under management of the New England Fishery Management Council – are known to be healthy, and this number has worsened since 2001, finds a new report released today by Environment Maine on behalf of the Marine Fish Conservation Network. Nearly 50 percent of New England’s fish stocks are in jeopardy—overfished and/or experiencing overfishing. The report clearly demonstrates that Congress should not weaken the overfishing protections in the main U.S. fisheries law, and should instead strengthen conservation measures when renewing it. | |
| PORTLAND— More than 74 percent of major industrial and municipal facilities across Maine discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow between July 2003 and December 2004, according to "Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance", a new report released today by Environment Maine Research & Policy Center. | |
| More than 80% of industrial and municipal facilities across Maine discharged more pollution into our waterways than their Clean Water Act permits allow in 2005, according to Troubled Waters: An analysis of Clean Water Act compliance, a new report released today by Environment Maine. | |
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