Murray Carpenter
Climate ReporterMurray Carpenter is Maine Public’s climate reporter, covering climate change and other environmental news.
Murray has been a Maine journalist for 25 years, with much of his reporting focused on science and environmental stories. His experience includes working as a reporter and editor for the Republican Journal, a staff writer for Maine Times, and an earlier stint as a general assignment reporter for Maine Public from 2006-2008. As a freelancer, he has reported for the New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR. His book Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts and Hooks Us was published by Penguin in 2014.
Murray lives in Belfast and spends as much time as possible outdoors, preferably with his wife and two adult daughters.
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"There's a war, and it's between fossil fuel and saving the planet," says Tony Buxton, a Maine attorney who represents industrial energy consumers such as paper mills and ski areas. "And I'm saying that as a representative of business, not as a representative of some left-wing organization. ... We need to get to work on this." -
Offshore wind farms could reduce the catch of Atlantic surf clams in the mid-Atlantic, according to a new study from Rutgers University.
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The finding suggests the moths might be able to spread into coniferous forests in Maine, further expanding their range.
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The recent Strawberry Supermoon did more than light up the summer sky, it also brought higher than normal tides. But with climate change causing sea levels to rise, higher tides are becoming the new normal. And one group is using volunteers to gather tidal data.
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The Military Fleet Electrification Act, introduced in the Senate on Monday, would require that three quarters of new nontactical vehicles purchased by the Department of Defense be zero-emissions vehicles, such as electric cars and trucks.
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The Maine Public Utilities Commission today approved measures that will lower the delivery rate for customers of the two companies.
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At Camden Hills State Park Wednesday, Gov. Janet Mills announced a $50 million investment to fund infrastructure and maintenance projects at Maine’s 48 state parks, which she said are now busier than ever.
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Chellie Pingree says some of the new funds from the USDA, announced June 1, will support organic farming practices that can mitigate the climate impacts on agriculture and help farmers adapt.
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Experts say it’s hard to predict the trajectory of this outbreak, and how the browntail moths will fare in Maine’s warming climate, but they don’t expect them to go away anytime soon.
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The St. Croix River, also known as the Schoodic River, flows through the homeland of the Passamaquoddy people between Maine and the province of New Brunswick. It once teemed with millions of migratory fish. Then came a series of dams that blocked the fish from their spawning grounds, and years of conflict over river management.
