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Cancer patients in Maine continue to struggle with long travel times to treatment
MAINE, USA — Seven years after a Maine Cancer Foundation study identified transportation as a major barrier to treatment for cancer patients in the state’s most rural areas, the same communities are still struggling with long travel times to treatments. Since 2017, Maine has lost several cancer treatment...
Water samples tested after Maine firefighting foam spill, below guidelines for dangerous chemicals
Maine environmental officials said all water samples analyzed so far in the wake of the state's largest recorded accidental spill of firefighting foam are below its guidelines for potentially dangerous chemicals.A fire suppression system at a hangar at Brunswick Executive Airport discharged more than 1,400 gallons (5,300 liters) of the foam concentrate mixed with 50,000 gallons (190,000 liters) of water at the former Navy base on Aug. 19. The discharge triggered an investigation and also prompted a warning from the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention to limit consumption of freshwater fish from nearby bodies of water.The...
Maine signs on to national effort to spur apprenticeships in ‘climate-ready’ industries
Gov. Janet Mills is teaming up with other heads of state across the country to carve out career pathways in the climate and clean energy fields. Mills is part of a bipartisan coalition of 24 governors that make up the U.S. Climate Alliance. Late last month, the group launched the Governors’ Climate-Ready Workforce Initiative with […]
How Maine hospitals are adapting to climate change
BANGOR, Maine — According to a study from The National Academy of Medicine, the health care industry is responsible for about 8.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. "We own hospitals, these large buildings. They never close; they're full of equipment that take a ferocious amount of...
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