Lori Valigra

Maine’s PFAS crisis is often portrayed as a result of regulators and health officials not knowing about the chemicals that were present in the sludge spread throughout the state, but there were concerns about its contents almost from the start of the state-run program, the BDN found.

Maine has largely neglected a heating fuel made from forestry waste that could help the state fulfill its ambitious goals to replace its nation-leading reliance on oil , instead focusing almost exclusively on electrification.

Sappi denied being the source of the spill in messages to regulators, but it acknowledged that a Coast Guard analysis confirmed it.

Sappi denied being the source of the spill in messages to regulators, but it acknowledged that a Coast Guard analysis confirmed it.

After a 26-year outbreak devastated Maine's forests, the state is testing a targeted attack on spruce budworms invading from Quebec.

Researchers walking through the forest during a major spruce budworm outbreak in the 1990s discovered some healthy fir trees unaffected by the deadly pests, and wondered what gave them apparent immunity.

After a 26-year outbreak devastated Maine's forests, the state is testing a targeted attack on spruce budworms invading from Quebec.

The fish die-off that followed a Penobscot River dam shutdown in July rallied calls for stiffer regulations on the dam's owner, which has been

Brookfield Renewable is in the final stages of relicensing the Ripogenus Dam, located about 30 miles west of Millinocket.

Five years after Debbie Cooper lost her fight against one of Maine’s most important landfills, her son's family is also leaving Hartland.