The state has spent millions of dollars to prop up the Old Town pulp mill while steadily fining the mill's owner for ongoing pollution. And now the biggest fine ever is imminent. The Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting has learned that the Maine Department of Environmental Protection is preparing to slap a $497,000 fine on Old Town Fuel & Fiber for excess air pollution over a 12-month period.
EPA is proposing approval of a revision to the Maine State Implementation Plan (SIP) submitted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) on December 9, 2010, with supplemental submittals on September 14, 2011 and November 9, 2011, that addresses regional haze for the first planning period from 2008 through 2018. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require States to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, manmade impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program''). States are required to assure reasonable progress toward the national goal of achieving natural visi...
Soon after the LePage administration became aware of a Maine law that might make Darryl Brown ineligible to serve as commissioner of the Maine Department of Environmental Protection, top officials approached the Republican legislative leadership and discussed the possibility of changing it. And though the Attorney General's Office issued no formal, written opinion on the issue until last week, documents obtained under Maine's Freedom of Access law reveal representatives had been consulting with DEP officials, the administration and Brown from nearly the first day the issue surfaced on Feb. 7.
EPA is approving a revision to the Maine State Implementation Plan (SIP) that addresses regional haze for the first planning period from 2008 through 2018. It was submitted by the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (Maine DEP) on December 9, 2010, with supplemental submittals on September 14, 2011, and November 9, 2011. This revision addresses the requirements of the Clean Air Act (CAA) and EPA's rules that require States to prevent any future, and remedy any existing, manmade impairment of visibility in mandatory Class I Areas caused by emissions of air pollutants from numerous sources located over a wide geographic area (also referred to as the ``regional haze program'').
AUGUSTA -- With a stroke of the governor's pen, David Rice hopes no other fisherman will have to experience what he went through when he built a pier off his property in South Bristol. Days after it was approved by the Legislature, Gov. Paul LePage on March 31 signed into law a bill that bars the Maine Department of Environmental Protection from regulating the storage of fishinggear on commercial fishing piers.
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