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The Maine Department of Marine Resources says nearly 1,500 salmon have returned to dams in Orono and Milford along the Penobscot River this year, and about 150 have been counted at two dams along the Kennebec.
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The four groups say they've obtained data showing the dam's owner remains in violation of the Endangered Species Act
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The Maine People's Alliance and the Natural Resources Defense Council first sued Mallinckrodt US LLC, the former owner of the now-closed HoltraChem plant in Orrington, back in 2000.
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The city of Bangor has chosen a Wabanaki artist to create a piece of public art to cover up an exhaust pipe that’s part of the recently completed 3.8 million-gallon sewage overflow tank project on the waterfront.
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If finalized, the settlement would force Mallinckrodt to provide at least $187 million for clean-up efforts on the Penobscot River — and bring the decades-long legal battle over mercury pollution to an end.
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The U.S. Supreme Court has declined the Penobscot Indian Nation's appeal in its fight with Maine over ownership and regulation of the tribe’s namesake river.
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A decades-long legal battle over cleaning up mercury pollution in the Penobscot River will come closer to a resolution following a series of hearings in October over a proposed settlement that could lead to a $267 million cleanup.
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The court case pits the tribe against the state of Maine and upstream business interests over the rights to regulate water quality and fishing in the river.
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This week, Maine lawmakers will consider the nomination of Jerry Reid to lead the Maine Department of Environmental Protection.A former natural resources…
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Several conservation groups have completed a deal to protect more than 4,300 acres just north of Millinocket off Route 11 in the Katahdin region. The deal…