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By Will Jacob
“If you build it, they will come,” said U.S. Congresswoman Chellie Pingree yesterday at a Maine Street Station conference, officially announcing Amtrak’s anticipated passenger train service that will connect Portland to Brunswick by 2012.
The Northern New England Passenger Rail Authority (NNEPRA) received a $35 million allocation from the Federal Railroad Administration as [...]

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Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx, D-Brunswick, got more than 100 legislators to sign a letter calling on Maine’s U.S. senators to take action to promote clean energy jobs, according to the House Majority Office.
It’s part of a national effort by the Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action Now, or CLEAN, which is working with [...]

by Michael Noble – Fresh Energy/WSF Board Member
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Midwest state and local government elected officials are among the thousands who have converged on Copenhagen, Denmark to urge the leaders of 192 nations to come together to tackle climate change. Governor Jim Doyle of Wisconsin is the highest ranking midwestern elected official with a public role [...]

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by Gerald Weinand
State Rep. Alex Cornell du Houx (D-Brunswick) has asked his fellow legislators to join a national effort calling for passage of the Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act (S. 1733). The effort is being led by the Coalition of Legislators for Energy Action Now (CLEAN), which is working with the White [...]