Eileen Johnson Helps Maine Communities Prepare for Severe Weather-Related Challenges
These are busy times for environmental studies lecturer Eileen Johnson. Apart from her teaching duties, she’s involved in a number of grant-funded projects aimed at assisting local communities.
“A lot of my work focuses on how rural municipalities can build their capacity for addressing climate change-related issues at the local level,” said Johnson. Two of the projects she is currently working on are aimed at helping coastal Maine towns prepare for exactly these types of challenges:
Hurricane Irene in 2011 was the deadliest to hit New England in more than half a century. Image: NASA/NOAA GOES Project.
FW Thurston Co. applies to increase floats and shore access
TREMONT After several years of negotiating with the town regarding the position of floats, the owners of FW Thurston Co. are submitting two applications for Tier 3 Natural Resources Protection Act permits with the Department of Environmental Protection to add 14 floats in total to their operation in Bernard.
FW Thurston buys and sells lobsters and operates Thurston’s Lobster Pound on the western shore of Bass Harbor, next to the town’s wharf in Bernard.
One application submitted under Woof Wagon LLC is for a marina on the north side of the property that abuts the town wharf. A second application, under Michael and Elizabeth Radcliffe, owners of FW Thurston, is on the south side of the property.
Caravan for Mother Earth draws attention to waste dumped at Juniper Ridge Landfill
Organizers say a loophole has allowed the out-of-state trash to be brought in and dumped off at the facility, despite regulations that were supposed to prevent it Author: Bob Evans (NEWS CENTER Maine) Published: 4:56 PM EDT April 22, 2021 Updated: 5:08 PM EDT April 22, 2021
OLD TOWN, Maine Several groups gathered for Earth Day in Old Town on Thursday to draw attention to the massive amounts of toxic out-of-state waste being dumped in a state landfill.
Community leaders from Don’t Waste ME, University of Maine students, and members of the Penobscot Nation are demanding that the state stop allowing imported waste into Maine’s Juniper Ridge Landfill (JRL).
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