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Obama’s environmental chief rallies Portland audience

The former head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency delivered a rousing call-to-action Wednesday to Maine environmental and conservation leaders in the face of the Trump’s administration attempts to rollback policies on climate change and pollution. In a speech to several hundred at a Maine Conservation Voters event in Portland, former EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy […]

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Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary seeks members

BRUNSWICK — The Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary Annual Membership drive is underway with the goal of renewing current members, as well as seeking new individuals to join. The Auxiliary leads a number of fundraising activities throughout the year that provide financial resources to the hospital. Since the Mid Coast Hospital Auxiliary was founded in 2001, it […]

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Guest column: Congress should lead on climate change

The U.N. Secretary General, António Guterres, warned global leaders that we all risk “runaway” global warming if they do not rein in carbon emissions. Since preindustrial times the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased over 43 percent; and each year despite unenforceable, voluntary global carbon emission targets, the amount of carbon dioxide […]

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Investigators still looking for answers in ‘complex’ case of skydiver who fell to his death

Members of the Maine Warden Service head out as the search for the body of a missing skydiver continues at Skydive New England. Brett Bickford, 41, of Rochester, N.H., a skydive instructor, became detached from his partner during a tandem jump from an airplane Thursday afternoon. JILL BRADY/Portland Press Herald Investigators say it will take […]