Charlie Eichacker
Digital News ReporterCharlie joined Maine Public at the start of 2021, after spending more than seven years writing for newspapers in Maine and Vermont. His stories earned several top honors from state and regional press associations.
Charlie has a bachelor's degree in English from Colby College and a master's in journalism from Columbia University. He taught English in China for two years with the U.S. Peace Corps and now lives in Maine with his wife, their two cats and a dog.
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The Municipal Review Committee says it has partnered with a third firm, Innovative Resource Recovery, that’s already backed by a well-funded investment company.
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Officials from the Municipal Review Committee told a legislative committee Wednesday that they might need the state to guarantee a $20 million loan to restart the facility if they can’t find a private partner.
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In recent years, Maine’s water resources have come under heightened scrutiny amid climate change, the megadrought threatening the Colorado River, smaller seasonal droughts that have challenged Maine food growers and dried up some wells, and growing awareness of contamination from PFAS and other chemicals.
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Maine hospitals endured a tough year in 2022, according to a variety of recent data and financial disclosures. The picture has somewhat improved for them in recent months, but it will be hard for them to fully bounce back from the deep-rooted problems that have driven many into the red.
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Two credit rating agencies have just lowered their assessments for one of Maine's biggest health care organizations, Northern Light Health, after it ended last year with an operating loss of more than $100 million because of a variety of staffing and operating challenges.
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Maine lost ground in its efforts to recycle more of its waste during the first two years of the coronavirus pandemic, according to a new state report. However, some advocates are hopeful that new waste reforms passed in recent years could eventually help turn things around.
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For more than a year, Maine Public's news staff has been taking a deep dive into the all-encompassing subject of climate change — examining its effects, its challenges and what future adaptation might look like in Maine, one county at a time.
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A commission has been studying Maine's water resources for the last few months and will soon send its recommendations to the Legislature. The group included state and tribal officials, private citizens and representatives from businesses including Poland Spring.
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A small but growing number of Maine groups have set aside portions of their land and sold credits that require them to lock up a certain amount of carbon in the trees that cover it.
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Because of drought conditions and seasonal demand, Stonington has been forced to look elsewhere for water over the last two summers: it has bought more than a million gallons — about 400,000 last year, and double that this year.