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King, Pingree Announce $62 Million to Boost Maine Solar, Lower Energy Costs

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U.S. Senator Angus King (I-Maine) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced that the Maine Governor’s Energy Office (GEO) was awarded $62,120,000 through the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Solar for All grant competition to deliver solar programs to low-income and disadvantaged households in Maine. This award is part of the historic $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction F...

Pingree Votes to Deliver $60 Billion in Defense Aid to Ukraine

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Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and the U.S. House of Representatives passed a bipartisan foreign aid package today that includes $60.8 billion for Ukraine. Pingree released the following statement after the vote on Saturday: “When Russia’s war against Ukraine began more than two years ago, support for Ukraine in Congress was almost universal. Unfortunately, the right has politi...

Pingree Applauds Latest Biden Admin Action to Clean up PFAS Contamination and Protect Public Health

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today praised the Biden-Harris Administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for their latest efforts to protect Americans from “forever chemical” contamination. EPA’s final rule will designate two widely used per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) chemicals, perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perfluorooctanesulfonic acid (PFOS), as haz...

VIDEO: In Appropriations Hearing, Interior Secretary Haaland, Ranking Member Pingree Highlight Funding for Climate Resilience, Tribal Stewardship Model in Acadia

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, today emphasized the importance of bolstering climate change resilience and supporting tribal co-stewardship in Acadia National Park and other national parks across the county. In a budget hearing this morning with Department of the Interior (DOI) Secretary ...

VIDEO: In Interior Appropriations Hearing, Ranking Member Pingree Says Severe Maine Storms Highlight Important Need for Forest Service Disaster Funding

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In a House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing for the U.S. Forest Service today, Ranking Member Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) called attention to the severe storms Maine has endured in recent months, which have impacted local economies, infrastructure, and forests. “Maine’s logging industry suffered more than $2.6 million in losses from...

Pingree, Durbin Send Letter to VA Requesting Details on Produce Prescription Programs

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U.S. Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today sent a letter to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs Denis McDonough requesting information about the implementation of “produce prescription” initiatives at the Veterans Health Administration (VHA). In 2022, President Biden called on VHA to begin the implementation of “produce prescriptions,” which allo...

Pingree Applauds Final Rule Expanding Background Checks for Firearm Sales

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Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree is applauding efforts by the Biden-Harris Administration to combat gun violence by announcing a new rule that will save lives by reducing the number of firearms sold without background checks. “More Americans die from misused firearms than car crashes every year, and yet America’s gun ownership laws are far more lax and allow weapons to get into t...

Pingree Leads Bipartisan Opposition to USDA Reclassification of Potatoes

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Amid concerning reports that potatoes could be reclassified as grains in the Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGAs), Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a member of the House Agriculture Committee, and Congressman Mike Simpson (R-Idaho) are leading a bipartisan effort to express opposition to efforts to declassify potatoes as vegetables. In a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) S...

Collins, King, Pingree Announce $3 Million Federal Investment to Improve Maine Marinas

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U.S. Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Angus King (I-Maine) and Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced $3 million in Boating Infrastructure Grant (BIG) funding for infrastructure improvements at DiMillo’s Marina in Portland and Peaks Island Marina. Funding for BIG is administered by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and was reauthorized under the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law...

Pingree Applauds First-Ever National Drinking Water Standard to Protect Mainers from PFAS Pollution

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Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the first-ever national, legally enforceable drinking water standard to protect communities from exposure to harmful per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as “forever chemicals.” Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee, w...

Whitefield Student to Attend Merchant Marine Academy

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced that Erskine Academy senior Giacomo Donato Smith of Whitefield has accepted an offer to attend the United States Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point, N.Y. Pingree nominated Giacomo to the Academy in December. “Acceptance to a U.S. service academy is extremely competitive and reflects highly on a student’s scholarship, community service, an...

Pingree, Dozens of Members of Congress Urge Biden, Blinken to Withhold Weapons Transfers After Humanitarian Aid Workers Killed

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Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, alongside U.S. Representatives Mark Pocan (D-Wisc.), Jim McGovern (D-Mass.), Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) and 37 of their colleagues sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken asking them to withhold pending offensive weapons transfers to Israel after seven humanitarian aid workers from World Central Kitchen, including ...

Pingree Statement on Passing of Former Maine Governor Joseph Brennan

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Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree today shared the following statement on the death of former Maine Governor and Congressman Joseph Brennan: “I’m saddened to hear of Joseph Brennan’s passing and offer my sincere condolences to his wife Connie, children Joseph (JB) and Tara, loved ones, and friends. Joe came from humble immigrant Irish beginnings and grew up in a large family of li...

Pingree Announces $15 Million Federal Investment to Boost Clean Energy Loans in Maine

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Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced $15 million for the Efficiency Maine Green Bank to support energy loans through a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Clean Investment Fund (NCIF), an initiative created by President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act’s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Efficiency Maine is a sub-awardee under an application submitte...

Collins, King, Pingree Announce $199K to Support Penobscot Nation Ocean and Coastal Priorities

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U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King and Representative Chellie Pingree announced that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has awarded the Penobscot Indian Nation $199,998 to increase the tribe’s involvement and support of energy, climate change and ocean-related issues. Funded through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, and dispersed via NOAA’s Regional Ocean Partnersh...

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