Penny is excited to be the Portland Press Herald’s first climate reporter. Since joining the paper in 2016, she has written about Maine’s lobster and cannabis industries, covered state politics and spent a fellowship year exploring the impact of climate change on the lobster fishery with the Boston Globe’s Spotlight team. Before moving to Maine, she covered politics, environment, casino gambling and tribal issues in Florida, Connecticut and Arizona. Her favorite assignments allow her to introduce readers to unusual people, cultures, or subjects. When off the clock, Penny is usually getting lost in a new book at a local coffeehouse, watching foreign crime shows or planning her family’s next adventure.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2018
Size and value of Maine lobster haul fell sharply in 2017
Will the industry survive one bad year? Yes. Will it hurt individual lobstermen? Yes.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2018
Leader of many Maine lobstermen relinquishing the helm after 27 years
Dave Cousens has advocated – assertively but carefully – for Maine’s largest trade group since 1991. And he insists he won’t keep his trap shut after he steps down.
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PublishedMarch 2, 2018
Lobstermen chief’s likely successor has strong ethic for conservation
Kristan Porter, 47, of Cutler is expected to be nominated at Friday’s Fishermen’s Forum.
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PublishedFebruary 23, 2018
Maine’s pot legalization committee reaches agreement on rewrite of voter-approved law
The bill it endorses would tax retail sales at 10 percent and halve the number of plants that could be grown for personal use.
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PublishedFebruary 21, 2018
Panel’s marijuana regulation bill omits licensing of social clubs
Legislators writing the adult-use rules don’t want to allow the pot gathering spots until another state goes first, and also vote not to share cannabis tax revenues with towns.
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PublishedFebruary 17, 2018
Voter-approved law says Mainers can grow 6 pot plants each, but lawmakers want to make it 3
A legislative panel that is revising the state’s adult-use marijuana law say the compromise would please opponents and reduce the risk of black-market sales.
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PublishedFebruary 16, 2018
Asians help to fill sales gap as Europe eats less Maine lobster
Live exports from the U.S. to the Far East jumped 36% last year, offsetting losses caused mainly by a Canadian trade deal.
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PublishedFebruary 12, 2018
U.S. data show increase in fatal crashes on April 20, day of pot events
Maine’s data set is too small to be statistically significant, but Canadian researchers find that, overall, U.S. drivers are at a greater risk on the roads that day than a week earlier or later.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2018
All Maine lobstermen will have to report fishing details, including secrets of success
But regulators who monitor the health of the fishery decide the state’s harvesters won’t have to reveal trap locations, catch totals and more until 2023.
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PublishedFebruary 8, 2018
Pot advocates help finance gubernatorial bid of leading marijuana opponent
All five directors of Legalize Maine have donated to House Minority Leader Ken Fredette’s campaign. Their positions on marijuana policy sometimes mesh, but he says he’s not doing the group’s bidding.
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