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...The area of land affected so far is exceeded only by the 1825 Miramichi fire, which burnt 3mn acres in eastern Canada and the state of Maine, according to a list compiled by the Western Fire Chiefs Association...
...US presidential election primary season reaches a peak this week, as delegates in 15 states vote for Republican and Democrat candidates on Super Tuesday....
...Likewise, the UK still lacks enough of the big one-stop shops and agencies that have emerged from Ireland to the US state of Maine to help homeowners navigate the baffling mix of heat pump grants and installation...
...“I think clean drinking water and for farmers to be able to irrigate their fields is far more important than a microchip,” said Stacy Brenner, a Maine state senator who backed the state’s bipartisan legislation...
...Business groups such the US Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers have largely backed further gas exports. Yet others have raised concerns....
...States can tap Covid funds to extend jobless aid: US states can use their allocations of $350bn in federal pandemic-relief funds to extend additional unemployment aid even as federal jobless benefits expire...
...Meanwhile in Maine, voters rejected a $1bn electricity transmission project that would have brought low-carbon hydropower into the state. 3....
...Individual US states are building their own DIY passport solutions. Just as New York introduced the Excelsior App, Florida and other states passed legislation to ban them....
...(Other attempts to create such associations, such as the League of Democracies idea taken up by the late John McCain, have gone nowhere.)...
...Hydro-Québec is also poised to send 1.2GW to Massachusetts after the utility Avangrid began construction last week on another new transmission line through the woods of Maine....
...The National Restaurant Association this week urged states to rethink such restrictions, questioning the public health case for them....
...“Maine aisi sabha pehli baar dekhi hai” (“I have never seen such big crowds at a rally”), he proclaimed....
...Morrison comes from Maine and was educated, initially training to be a singer, at Boston University, Arizona State and the Yale School of Drama....
...“I have spent a lot of time on the phone to pupils who don’t have internet access at home.” says Rachel Murat, a teacher at Maine-Endwell High School, also in rural New York....
...Atlanta, Georgia, August 21 1976; Ronald Reagan, former governor of California, Orlando, Florida, March 4 1976; George Meany, president, AFL-CIO, Washington, DC, March 3 1976; Edmund Muskie, US senator (Maine...
...States including Arkansas, Georgia and Maine restrict the technology’s use to law enforcement and security purposes....
...The Western States Petroleum Association, backed by oil companies and business groups, raised $31.6m to fight the measure, a record for the state....
...A cucumber wrapped in the material lasts two weeks compared with just three days unwrapped, reports the Flexible Packaging Association....
...His decision puts the spotlight on the two remaining moderate Republicans — Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska — who have not said if they will vote for Mr Kavanaugh when his nomination...
...Minimal state spending on education means there are clearly limits to how far upskilling can go....
...“I think Scott Pruitt is the wrong person to head the EPA,” Susan Collins, a Republican senator from Maine, told CNN’s State of the Union on Sunday....
...Contributions may be made to the Beatrix Farrand Garden Association (a not-for-profit organisation), PO Box 315, Hyde Park, New York 12538....
...Pension funds in California, Maine, Nevada, Vermont and Washington state all sued Countrywide’s new owner, claiming that many of its sales documents were insufficiently forthcoming about the risks....
...“It’s a lobster liberation thing,” said Annie Tselikis, executive director of the Maine Lobster Dealers Association....
...But voters in a handful of states were also given a say on legalising use of marijuana for recreational use. In the states of California, Maine, Massachusetts and Nevada, they approved....
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