Assignment 13-2 (Environmental issue in Maine)

I'll be researching clean air in Maine, pollution from vehicles, steps to produce wind power in Maine and Maine's air quality. This is not only a local issue, but a national issue as well.

Sources of information:
http://www.nrcm.org/issue_windpower.asp
http://www.environmentmaine.org/newsroom/energy
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1P1-126992214.html
http://www.environmentmaine.org/clean-air
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/lev4me/index.html
http://www.nrcm.org/project_cleanair.asp
http://www.nrcm.org/issue_cleanenergy.asp
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/ozone/
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/ozone/currentdata.html
http://www.nrcm.org/news_detail.asp?news=3564
http://www.scorecard.org/env-releases/hap/state.tcl?fips_state_code=23

Graphics:
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/toxics/images/REFINERY.JPG
http://www.maine.gov/dep/air/toxics/images/fallscene.jpg
http://alg.umbc.edu/usaq/images/pm25_super_2004-07-23.gif
http://environmentdebate.files.wordpress.com/2007/01/air_pollution_china.jpg
http://maine.sierraclub.org/East%20End%20PV.JPG

Assignment 12-1

ORONO, ME -The body of a 20 year-old UMaine student was found by a passerby around 5:40 a.m on Middle Street on January 30. For two and a half months police have been searching for a suspect in Jordyn Bakley's death, and on Friday morning around 6 a.m., they found him. Police have arrested Garrett Cheney, 22 of South Berwick, in connection with the death of Bakley.

Cheney has been charged with manslaughter, leaving the scene of an accident that resulted in death to a person, aggravated criminal operating under the influence and criminal operating under the influence. He turned himself in to Maine State Police after finding out there was a warrant out for his arrest.

Bakley was a junior elementary education student from Camden, Maine. She was active in the Student Women’s Association and recently had her photography displayed at the Hunting House Gallery in Orono. According to the state medical examiner's office, Bakley died of blunt force trauma.

Cheney was in Orono on January 29 to celebrate his cousins 21^st birthday. The two visited a couple of bars and drank together before Cheney left a bar on Middle St. around 3 a.m. The court affidavit states that Cheney struck Bakley while driving on Middle Street on the wrong side of the road shortly after 3 a.m. The collection of evidence, such as part of the vehicle's grill which led to the discovery of the vehicle that struck Bakley, led to Cheney's arrest.

Images retrieved from the Maine Campus

http://mainecampus.com/2010/04/16/arrest-made-in-bakley-hit-and-run/?ref=hp

The court affidavit states that Cheney then headed south on I-95 and drove his truck off the road in Etna around 3:30 a.m., on January 30. He is alleged to have been driving home to South Berwick, 181 miles from Orono. He was charged with operating under the influence and was found to have a blood alcohol content of 0.15-nearly twice the legal limit.

Cheney's defense lawyer, William T. Bly, is an experienced Maine OUI defense attorney. Bly claims that the police arrested the wrong man and believes the police stopped investigating alternative suspects too early in the case. "We believe that they have the wrong guy. The irony is that my client wrecked his car in Etna and immediately called 911. We believe that is not consistent with somebody who was involved in a hit and run accident and trying to get away," explains Bly.

Cheney’s bail was set at $50,000 surety or $20,000 cash and he posted the surety around 4 p.m. Friday. He is scheduled to have his first court appearance on May 20 at the Penobscot County Judicial Center. If convicted of manslaughter, Cheney faces up to 30 years in prison.