By Eesha Pendharkar | Senior Reporter
“This is the EPA failing to do its job and failing to follow the science,” - Emily Carey Perez de Alejo, executive director of Defend Our Health on deficiencies in the federal environment agency’s guidance on forever chemicals.
Attendees of the Maine Democratic Party’s state convention in Bangor on May 31, 2024. (Emma Davis/ Maine Morning Star)
By Emma Davis and Eesha Pendharkar
County-level Democrats are mobilizing to determine how to choose delegates to send to the approximately 600-person convention the Maine Democratic Party intends to hold later this month to select Graham Platner’s replacement as the party’s U.S. Senate nominee.
By Eesha Pendharkar
The Maine Supreme Judicial Court Friday affirmed the Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows’ decision to remove a question about transgender sports from the ballot this November because its campaign committee did not collect enough valid signatures.
By Kaitlyn Budion
Environmental advocates criticized a draft memorandum from the Environmental Protection Agency for failing to remotely address the risks of PFAS in sludge. Although Maine has worked to address the issue across the state, the EPA recommendations instead put all responsibility on individuals to manage the problem, two experts told Maine Morning Star.
By Emma Davis
The political action committees that sued Maine over its 2024 law limiting contributions to super PACs are arguing the U.S. Supreme Court’s campaign finance ruling last week affirms their case. But the other side argues the SCOTUS ruling, which effectively eliminated limits on coordinated party expenditures, is not relevant to the Maine case.
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