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Last week federal officials announced they aim to deploy high-tech fishing gear on as many as 100 lobster and crab boats in New England. It's the latest move to bring Maine's lobster fleet into a new era, as an onslaught of potentially transformative federal regulations intended to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales take effect.
A federal investigation of allegations that China is illegally avoiding duties on solar panels sold to U.S. companies is putting the brakes on the nation's solar power build-out.
This week: The state moves to set new limits on PFAS, while helping towns deal with the chemicals in their drinking water. An entire block of Provincetown is sold, raising questions about what happens next. And Brewster asks for help in naming its new beach.
Food waste creates costly greenhouse gas emissions. Recycling it can help.
GO Lab is retrofitting a former paper mill in Madison to process low-quality byproducts of the state's lumber industry — softwood sawmill chips and timber-harvest detritus that right now are hard to sell. They'll turn it into wood-fiber insulation, called Timber HP. Some 230 million tons worth a year.