WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: Senators Susan Collins (R-Maine), Vice Chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, and Angus King (I-Maine) announced today that the cities of Portland and Lewiston have been awarded grant funding to help protect children from lead poisoning. The Lead-Based Paint Hazard Reduction (LHR) grant program awards, totaling $11,117,960, will help improve the health of Maine communities by fixing older housing an  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) released the following statement after the European Union's (E.U.) decision to delay its point-of-origin regulation that he and 72 other bipartisan House members requested a pause to last month:"Maine's forest products industry has set the bar globally for sustainability, yet even our own businesses would have been unable to meet the impossibly high standard of this proposal," G  more

WASHINGTON, Oct. 9 -- Rep. Jared Golden, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Congressman Jared Golden (ME-02) yesterday sent a letter urging the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASFMC) to formally adopt a delay to a lobster gauge increase in the Gulf of Maine until at least July 2025. He called on the Commission to gather more accurate lobster stock data in the meantime while also addressing the unequal regulatory burden between Maine and Canadian lobstermen."It is my hope t  more