Maine Partners for Cool Communities

Two yaers ago PSR/Maine joined with the Sierra Club Maine, American Lung Association of Maine, Maine Council of Churches, Maine Energy Investment Corporation to form Maine Partners for Cool Communities.  Cool Cities is a national Sierra Club campaign which encourages cities to take the lead to address global warming by looking at various energy solutions. Across the country more than 200 mayors in 38 states have signed the U.S. Mayors Climate Protection Agreement to reduce global warming carbon dioxide pollution in their cities to 7% below 1990 levels by 2012.

How does climate change affect Maine?  There multiple adverse impacts on the health and well being of Mainers include increased insect borne illness, increased respiratory problems, and altered coastline, and disrupted water supplies.  Over 60 percent of all households in Maine get their water from wells that draw from ground water supply. However, the potential for severe drought may dry up wells, and the potential for increased flooding may contaminate the water supply. A survey of wells by the Department of Environmental Protection in Maine revealed that 342 of the state’s wells are at risk of contamination.

U.S. Roadmap to Energy Security

Carbon Free Nuclear Free

ARJUN MAHIJANI Recently spoke across Maine about his U.S. Roadmap to Energy Security in his new book Carbon Free Nuclear Free Talks were sponsored by Maine Partners for Cool Communities

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Arjun Makhijani, President of IEER, holds a Ph.D. in engineering (specialization: nuclear fusion) from the University of California at Berkeley. He has produced many studies and articles on nuclear fuel cycle related issues, including weapons production, testing, and nuclear waste, over the past fifteen years. He is the principal author of the first study ever done (completed in 1971) on energy conservation potential in the U.S. economy. He is the principal editor of Nuclear Wastelands and the principal author of Mending the Ozone Hole, both published by MIT Press

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The Alliance for  a Clean and Healthly Maine

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PSR/ Maine is part of this diverse coalition of nine Maine-based organizations that has embarked upon a multi-year public health campaign to phase out the long-lived toxic chemicals that build up in the food web and our bodies. Through a series of strategic issue campaigns, the Alliance for a Clean & Healthy Maine will target sources of persistent toxic chemicals to be replaced with safer alternatives. Over time, we will seek government and business commitments to phase out the entire class of persistent toxics in favor of clean production.

The organizations committed to the campaign represent health-affected children, workers, doctors, public health professionals, environmentalists and impacted communities. Together we are committed to protecting human health from toxic chemical exposure and building organizational capacity to sustain environmental health improvements. Working collectively in Maine, we can set the pace nationally for policy development and best practices that end the dangerous use of persistent toxic chemicals.

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