Donate to WERU Today!Host/Producer: Amy Browne
Excerpts from some of the four hours + of testimony the state legislature’s Environment and Natural Resources committee heard yesterday at the public hearing for 2 bills related to protecting Sears Island from industrial development:
LD 226, “An Act to Protect the Cultural Resources and Historical Heritage of Sears Island in Searsport by Extending Conservation Easement Protections”.
FMI: legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/226?legislature=132
LD 735, “An Act to Protect Sand Dunes on Sears Island and to Establish Criteria for Legislation Regarding Land Development”.
FMI: legislature.maine.gov/billtracker/#Paper/735?legislature=132
If you would like to hear more testimony, check the pages for each bill (links above). Written testimony and audio files of verbal testimony will be posted there by the committee
About the host:
Amy Browne started out at WERU as a volunteer news & public affairs producer in 2000, co-hosting/co-producing RadioActive with Meredith DeFrancesco. She joined the team of Voices producers a few years later, and has been WERU’s News & Public Affairs Manager since January, 2006. In addition to RadioActive, Voices, Maine Currents and Maine: The Way Life Could Be, Amy also produced and hosted the WERU News Report for several years. She has produced segments for national programs including Free Speech Radio News, This Way Out, Making Contact, Workers Independent News, Pacifica PeaceWatch, and Live Wire News, and has contributed to Democracy Now and the WBAI News Report. She is the recipient of the 2014 Excellence in Environmental Journalism Award from the Sierra Club of Maine, and Maine Association of Broadcasters awards for her work in 2017 and 2021.
Theme music: BreakBeat Chemists I, 2015
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