Government funding

In Maine, National Institutes of Health grants and contracts support 1,468 jobs and $286 million in economic activity. 

Notice of a funding freeze by the Trump administration for alternative energy research at the university has brought an abrupt halt to an offshore wind turbine installation project that has been years in the making.

U.S. Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, as well as 40 Democrats in the Senate, asked the Social Security Administration to resist closing field offices to in-person visits. 

New legislation, signed into law on Earth Day, is aimed at better protecting Maine communities, businesses and homeowners from the effects of severe storms.

Obesity is one of the biggest public health challenges facing Maine, costing the state $450 million a year, writes guest columnist Andrew Zarro.

The Falmouth-based nonprofit Konbit Sante lost a fifth of its budget when the federal government’s froze funding at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

Maine was to have received a total of $1.8 million in food program funding this year. An estimated $917,000 had become inaccessible.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services notified the museum that federally approved funds are being frozen because the planned programming is "no longer consistent with the agency's priorities" under new leadership.

Recent cuts to DHHS and NIH programs are temporarily blocked, while the future of the home heating assistance program remains uncertain.

More than 250 organizations across Maine participate in the program to combat food insecurity.