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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Hotter temperatures are intensifying normal short-term droughts in the Northeast. -
Collins says she is alarmed by the abrupt termination of Susan Monarez from the nation's top public health position. -
The city's waterfront hosts one of New England's last remaining coal stockpiles that has raised public health and environmental concerns. -
The news organizations worked together to report on extreme heat in Maine and what's being done to prepare for dangerous temperatures in the future. -
The state is enduring a stretch of dry weather and high wildfire danger. -
As summer temperatures increase, more attention is focused on the danger of working in high heat. -
Extremely dangerous heat is still unusual in Maine — but emergency officials across the state are already planning for a future where they’re responding to temperature spikes as silent natural disasters. -
Water levels on major rivers in the southern half of the state are far below normal for this time of year. -
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.
