ICN New England Archives - Inside Climate News

Climate Change Worsens Half-Century of Drinking Water Problems for Maine Native Reservation

The tap water in Sipayik has smelled and tasted bad for years. A new, deep well in town has been helping, but now the Trump administration has clawed back grant funds for water testing and filtration.

By Sydney Cromwell

Billy Longfellow of the Sipayik Environmental Department explains how the Samaqannihkuk well station works. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

A wall made of boulders protects portions of Sipayik’s eastern coast from tidal erosion in Maine. Credit: Sydney Cromwell/Inside Climate News

In Far Northeastern Maine, a Native Community Fights to Adapt to Climate Change

By Sydney Cromwell

The community clam garden at Sipayik started with 250,000 clam seedlings in 2022 and now has 1.25 million clams growing in its plots. Credit: Courtesy of Erik Francis

Can Clams Make a Comeback on a Tribal Reservation in Maine?

By Sydney Cromwell

Trump Administration Issues Stop Work Order for Offshore Wind Project, Citing National Security Concerns

By Aidan Hughes

Atlantic Shore Towns Feel Hurricane Erin’s Sting Without It Ever Making Landfall

By Kiley Price

Massachusetts Seeks to End Ratepayer-Funded Subsidy for New Natural Gas Connections

By Phil McKenna

A Vermont Forest Tries a New Model of Growth, Diversity and Logging

By Olivia Gieger

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle

Moving on From the Heartbreak Hotel

By Nina Sablan

Can We Alter the Ocean to Counter Climate Change Faster? This Experiment Aims to Find Out

By Teresa Tomassoni

Treated sewage sludge dries in shallow sand beds. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

Why Farmers May Be Able to Continue Fertilizing Fields With PFAS-Contaminated Sewage Sludge

By Tom Perkins

New Research Shows More Extreme Global Warming Impacts Looming for the Northeast

By Bob Berwyn

As California’s Emissions Rules Faces Court Battles, States Scramble To Save Their Climate Goals

By Rambo Talabong

Trump Joins the Opposition to Vermont’s Climate Superfund Act, Calling it ‘Burdensome’ and ‘Ideologically Motivated’

By Nina Sablan

Can Solar and Geothermal Energy Help a Church and Its Neighbors Wean Off Fossil Fuels?

By Phil McKenna

Dune restoration has stabilized an area separating Hither Creek from the Atlantic Ocean in Madaket, Nantucket. Credit: Jennifer Karberg/Nantucket Conservation Foundation

How Nantucket Is Preparing for Rising Seas

By Nicole Williams

Gov. Phil Scott cited a lack of charging stations and a freeze of millions of dollars in federal funding for chargers in Vermont as part of the reason for the order. Credit: Suzanne Kreiter/The Boston Globe via Getty Images

Vermont’s Governor Delays Electric Car Mandates, Part of State’s Climate Plan

By Nathaniel Eisen

Laurene Allen won the 2025 Goldman Environmental Prize for her activism with contaminated in her hometown of Merrimack, N.H. Credit: Goldman Environmental Prize

She Galvanized Her Community After a Company Contaminated It With ‘Forever Chemicals’

Interview by Steve Curwood, Living on Earth

Universities, States Have ‘Responsibility’ to Act on Climate in Trump Era, UMass President says

By Dennis Pillion

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