Donate to WERU Today!Host/Producer: Amy Browne
The state legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Environment and Natural Resources will hold public hearings on several bills today, in sessions starting at 10am and at noon.
L.D. 1808 “An Act to Enact the Maine Climate Superfund Act”
L.D. 1870 “An Act to Establish a Climate Superfund Cost Recovery Program to Impose Penalties on Climate Polluters”
L.D. 1698 “An Act Regarding Changes of Ownership of Dams”
L.D. 1786 “An Act to Require the Department of Environmental Protection to Provide Certain Information Regarding Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances to the Public and Private Drinking Water Well Owners”
L.D. 1882 Bill “Resolve, Directing the Department of Environmental Protection to Conduct Rulemaking Regarding Significant Vernal Pools”
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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