Articles Tagged: environment

Speaking on the battle to define America’s purpose via Maine Public radio

Posted November 6th, 2022 & filed under Maine, Media, nationalism, Nationhood Lab, Portland, speaking, Union, US History, US politics.

The United States stands on the brink of a collapse into authoritarianism and dissolution. If we’re to fight back, what are we fighting for? What holds us together? That’s a… Read more »

Speaking on Union in Portland, Maine, Oct. 19

Posted August 30th, 2022 & filed under .

I’ll be delivering the keynote address at the Maine Conservation Alliance and Maine Consideration Voters’ annual Evening for the Environment on Oct. 19 at the University of New England in… Read more »

Quebec to New England transmission project could be delayed by rival

Posted July 28th, 2021 & filed under Canada, climate change, energy, environment, forests, Janet Mills, Maine, Maine dispatches, Massachusetts, New England, New Hampshire, Portland Press Herald, Quebec.

Here in Maine one of the most controversial public policy issues of recent years has been over a project to connect the massive hydroelectric dams in northern Quebec with the… Read more »

Conservation groups to sue $600 billion firm over salmon deaths at Maine dams

Posted June 7th, 2021 & filed under energy, environment, fishing, Maine, Maine dispatches, Oceans, Portland Press Herald, US dispatches.

In Saturday’s Portland Press Herald I wrote an update on the ongoing dispute over the future of sea run fish in Maine’s Kennebec River and the survival of endangered Atlantic… Read more »

COLIN WOODARD is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist. He is the author of six 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 the Portland Press Herald and Maine Sunday Telegram he won a 2012 George Polk Award and was a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize in 2016. He is a contributing editor at POLITICO and his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Economist, Smithsonian and dozens of other major publications.

A native of Maine, he has reported from more than 50 countries and seven continents and lived for more than four years in Eastern Europe during the collapse of the Soviet empire and the transition that followed. A graduate of Tufts University and the University of Chicago he is past Pew Fellow in International Journalism at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a recipient of the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for Excellence in Public Advocacy.

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