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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State officials warn people to stay safe during unusually hot weather. -
A coalition of conservation advocates say the power utility is failing to meet the requirements of its permit to construct an electric transmission line in Western Maine. -
The measure requires big facilities to donate or compost uneaten food. -
Property owners can raise existing barriers two feet but have to comply with heavy regulations. -
Under the measure landowners have to report details of their contracts to tend woodlands to absorb climate warming pollution. -
Timberland owners want to prevent a repeat of a devastating infestation of the voracious forest insects in the 1970s and 1980s. -
Tower Solar Partners agreed to pay almost $236,000 for violations while constructing a solar array in Embden. -
Maine regulators found the sawmill was polluting a nearby stream and groundwater.
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Congress has set aside $23 million to build a jetty near the coastal neighborhood to lessen wave damage and sand loss. -
Land preservation was required under state permits for the company's transmission line bringing power from Quebec to the New England grid.
