News Release | Environment Maine

Obama Administration to Protect Americans' Health by Setting Carbon Pollution Standards for New Power Plants

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed historic new limits on carbon pollution from new power plants. Coal-fired power plants are the largest single source of carbon pollution in the U.S., yet there are currently no federal limits on this pollution from power plants. 

News Release | Environment Maine

New Report: Maine’s Smog Levels Exceed Health Standard in 2010

As the U.S. House prepares to consider legislation to roll back clean air rules, Environment Maine released a new report today showing that smog levels in Maine exceeded the national health standard in 2010 at urban, suburban, and rural sites in six different Maine counties.  

News Release | Environment Maine

Senate Rejects Assault on ME's Public Health, Environment; Sens. Snowe and Collins Vote with Polluter Lobby

The U.S. Senate today rejected a House-passed funding bill that included sweeping attacks on many core environmental and public health programs.  The bill would have blocked the Environmental Protection Agency from updating and enforcing limits on a variety of dangerous pollutants such as mercury, arsenic, and carbon, saving consumers billions of dollars annually at the gas pump through clean car standards, and protecting the drinking water supplies for more than 117 million Americans. It also would have slashed funding to preserve Acadia National Park and other treasured places around Maine and the country. 

News Release | Environment Maine

Senate Rejects Assault on ME’s Public Health, Environment; Sens. Snowe and Collins Vote with Polluter Lobby

 The U.S. Senate today rejected a House-passed funding bill that included sweeping attacks on many core environmental and public health programs.

News Release | Environment Maine

Public Health & Environment Under Attack with New Bill in Congress

Yesterday, Congressman Fred Upton (R-MI) and Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) introduced a sweeping assault on public health and the Clean Air Act.

News Release | Environment Maine

U.S. House Budget Largest Assault on Public Health, Clean Air & Clean Water in Years

Today the U.S. House of Representatives passed a funding bill that amounts to the biggest attack on clean air and clean water in recent history, according to Environment Maine.

News Release | Environment Maine

Senators Snowe & Collins Urged to Protect Public Health, Reject New Dirty Air Bills

 Late yesterday, two U.S. Senators introduced dangerous legislation that seeks to block new public health protections.

News Release | Environment Maine

Maine Health Professionals Call On Washington Today to Combat Climate Change

Today, health professionals from across Maine join over 100 leading national and state-level public health organizations and experts who are calling upon President Obama and the U.S. Congress to protect the Clean Air Act and to let EPA start addressing climate changing pollution, as required by law.