In today’s Portland Press Herald, I wrote about how Maine Governor Paul LePage’s nomination of Mark Dubois, the public face of Nestle Waters (dba Poland Springs), to the state Board of Environmental Protection is drawing fire.
Dubois, whose firm has been on the scene for some amazing conflict of interest situations in the past, goes before a legislative confirmation hearing later today in Augusta.
That is all.
[Update, 1/25/18: The environment and natural resources committee endorsed Dubois 10-3 and the Senate confirmed him by a much closer, mostly party line, 18-15.]
COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author, historian and award-winning journalist. He is the author of seven books that have been translated into a dozen foreign languages and inspired an NBC television drama. He is currently Director of Nationhood Lab at the Pell Center for International Relations and Public Affairs at Salve Regina University. As State and National Affairs Writer at Maine's Portland Press Herald, he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Politico, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.