Peter McGuire
Climate ReporterPeter comes to Maine Public with more than a decade of experience in Maine journalism. He grew up in northwest Oxford County and earned degrees from Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia and Boston University. He has covered municipal government, courts, the environment, transportation, labor, economic development and business for newspapers including the Portland Press Herald, Lewiston Sun Journal and Waterville Morning Sentinel. Peter lives in southern Maine with his spouse and dog. He likes to spend a lot of time outside.
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The agency says that the recent Republican tax law revoked funding for the national Solar for All program. -
The Trump administration is reportedly considering clawing back $7 billion in national grants to help low-income people connect to inexpensive solar power. -
The Trump administration has rescinded millions of acres of ocean set aside for ocean wind development. -
Timberland owners say a concentrated pesticide application is keeping an outbreak of the damaging forest insects in check. -
The agency says it wants to get rid of the 'endangerment finding' that greenhouse gas pollution threatens public health and welfare. -
Twenty years after the state's only nuclear plant was finally decommissioned, atomic power is reentering the conversation about Maine's energy future. -
A huge 'water battery' could generate electricity to supplement other renewable power sources. -
Monitors found 174 nesting pairs in the state, up from just a few dozen less than 20 years ago. -
The agency said an industry request to exempt pots and pans with nonstick coatings did not meet standards for unavoidable uses of forever chemicals. -
The suit wants to restore a cancelled program that helped protect communities from natural disasters.
