WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: More than $13 million is coming to Maine to support private forestland management and conservation, Congresswoman Chellie Pingree announced today. The grants for the Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry (DACF) and the New England Forestry Foundation (NEFF) are among awards totaling nearly $335 million for state agencies and nonprofit organizations across the country. Made possible than  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Rep. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, issued the following news release: Today, U.S. Representatives Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) and Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, released findings from the federal government's first-ever report on textile waste in the United States. The Government Accountability Office's (GAO) report, requested by Pingree and DeLauro in 2023, examines the environmental impact  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: The Senate unanimously passed the Cardiomyopathy, Health Education, Awareness, Research, and Training in Schools (HEARTS) Act, bipartisan legislation that will create a grant program at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support CPR and automated external defibrillator (AED) training and the purchase of more AED devices in schools. The bill now heads to the President's desk to be signed in  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: Click HERE, HERE, HERE, and HERE for individual photos. Click HERE for video of Senator Collins and Senator Barrasso laying a wreath during the ceremony in Belgium. Senators Susan Collins, Jerry Moran (R-KS), John Barrasso (R-WY), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), and Maggie Hassan (D-NH) are representing the U.S. Senate at ceremonies commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge in Bastogne, Be  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Susan M. Collins, R-Maine, issued the following news release: This week, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Collins and Angus King designating Saturday, December 14, 2024 as "Wreaths Across America Day." The annual event honors our nation's fallen heroes with commemorative Maine-made balsam wreaths laid by millions of volunteers across the globe, including by a convoy that travels from Maine to Arlington National Cemetery in Virgin  more

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 -- Sen. Angus S. King Jr., I-Maine, issued the following news release: This week, the Senate unanimously passed a resolution introduced by U.S. Senators Collins and Angus King designating Saturday, December 14, 2024 as "Wreaths Across America Day." The annual event honors our nation's fallen heroes with commemorative Maine-made balsam wreaths laid by millions of volunteers across the globe, including by a convoy that travels from Maine to Arlington National Cemetery in Virgi  more