Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today made several U.S. Service Academy announcements and congratulated the Maine students she nominated on their acceptance. Max Kennedy of South Portland will attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in N.Y.; Cora Birknes of Yarmouth will attend the U.S. Naval Academy; and Colby Ting of Yarmouth and Benjamin van den Heuvel of Berwick will… Read more »
Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced $1.6 million in federal Wood Innovations and Community Wood Grant Program funding for Maine. Announced as part of a $74 million investment for 171 projectsnationwide by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Forest Service, funding for three projects in Maine will help bring production back to the Jay Mill, expand the… Read more »
Maine First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree joined a bicameral group of her colleagues in Congress in encouraging the Biden-Harris Administration to use its executive authority to lower food prices for families. In a letter to President Joe Biden, the lawmakers—led by Congressman James P. McGovern (D-Mass.) and Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)—note how corporations have… Read more »
Responding to urgent constituent calls, Maine’s First District Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and more than 100 Members of Congress are pushing House and Senate leadership to include funding for the Affordable Connectivity Program (ACP) in upcoming legislation to reauthorize the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Chuck… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced $1.5 million in federal funding to protect, conserve, and restore more than 2,000 acres of coastal wetlands and habitats in Maine. With this funding, the Blue Hill Heritage Trust will continue to build on their coastal conservation successes and will add to more than 184,000 acres conserved to date within 5 miles of the Gulf of… Read more »
During a House Appropriations Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Subcommittee budget hearing with U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, Ranking Member Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) called attention to Maine’s ongoing challenges with PFAS chemical contamination as well as the impacts of pollution from fast… Read more »
Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine), a member of the House Agriculture Committee and House Appropriations Subcommittee on Agriculture, applauded new action by the Biden-Harris Administration to promote the health of America’s children through school meals. Notably, the new standards allow schools to require fresh foods to be locally grown, raised, or caught when… Read more »
Tonight, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) accepted the Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project’s (ILAP) 2023 Policy Leader award in recognition of her work and leadership in Congress to speed up asylum seeker work authorizations. Pingree accepted the award at an event in Portland on Wednesday night, where she dedicated the award to her Portland-based constituent services team.
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Today, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) announced 10 U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) grants worth a total of $657,298 for businesses in Maine’s First Congressional District. The infusion of rural development funding comes from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed by Congressional Democrats and signed by President Biden.
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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… Read more »
