Penelope Overton
Reporter at The Portland Press Herald/Maine Sunday Telegram
Ink-stained journalist @PressHerald in Maine. Now: environment and climate. Then: lobster, cannabis, politics.
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Jun. 17—Maine lawmakers have sent a bill to Gov. Janet Mills to bolster protections for seasonal wetlands that provide critical habitat for imperiled amphibians, insects, turtles and other wildlife. The bill would establish a 100-foot no-development zone around vernal pools that support an at-risk species, like a spotted turtle or a ringed boghaunter dragonfly, or that qualify as significant due to the abundance of fairy shrimp, wood frogs or spotted salamanders that use it.
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Jun. 11—The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reinstated a $1.6 million grant to the University of Maine to research and reduce the effect of forever chemicals on farms one month after canceling it for being inconsistent with EPA funding priorities.
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Jun. 9—Scientists and fishermen are eager to learn more about a sudden cooling in the deep waters of the Gulf of Maine, a new mystery in a body of water as well known in global science circles for its rapid warming as it is among foodies for its lobsters, oysters and scallops. That will be hard to do under a proposed federal budget that cuts funds for a national ocean monitoring system. "People are talking (about the cooling).
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3 weeks ago |
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Jun. 6—Maine is in the middle of writing its once-a-decade wildlife action plan, a conservation blueprint that will guide funding decisions, science and protection efforts. And, for the first time, the plan will emphasize the critical role of habitat protection, and consider how climate change affects local plants and animals.
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May 31—The wild blue mussel beds that once blanketed Maine's dynamic intertidal zone are disappearing, driven out by warming water that not only hurts the mussels themselves but benefits one of its chief predators, the highly invasive and always hungry green crab.
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