Matthew Brackley returned to his electrical business in West Bath after serving a fraction of his 15-month prison sentence for assaulting police at the U.S. Capitol.
As promised, President Donald Trump pumped the brakes on offshore wind projects as part of his Day 1 agenda. Among the slew of executive orders signed Monday was a temporary withdrawal of all areas of the outer continental shelf from new or renewed offshore wind leasing.
"It’s not his job to reinterpret the Constitution. It’s his job to follow the Constitution," Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey said Tuesday.
Trump signed a handful of executive orders Monday, including declaring a national emergency at the southern border.
Equality Maine says it's not surprised President Donald Trump targeted the LBGTQ+ community in one of his executive orders signed Monday.
Some believe the administration will alleviate financial pressures and secure the border. Others worry of potential consequences to the climate and immigrants.
Trump's order could hinder development of Maine’s demonstration floating wind farm on a federal Gulf of Maine lease. And a suspension of federal permitting could impact a planned wind power project in Northern Maine.
Commercial-scale leases in the Gulf of Maine, a state research project and plans for a turbine-assembly port will be affected by one of the new president's first executive orders.
While there has been debate on how President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs would affect the state’s manufacturing economy, there are concerns of another possible outcome: increased energy costs for Mainers,
David Fotouhi, a lawyer who recently challenged a ban on asbestos, worked to roll back climate regulations and water protections while serving in the Environmental Protection Agency during Trump’s first administration.
Two of the most vulnerable Republican senators ahead of the 2026 midterms voiced pushback to President Donald Trump 's sweeping pardons of January 6 defendants on Tuesday. Trump issued pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol building as one of his first actions in office on Monday.