Secretary of Veterns Affairs Denis R. McDonough, US Senator Angus KIng, and US Rep. Chellie Pingree (D) at Panel Presentation Last Week, at USM, Portland.  For More Information on the Subject, Please Visit Post Herein Dated August 4, 2023.

An Anti-Trump Sign Outside the Courtroom in Washington DC Where trump Was Arraigned for the Third Time on August 1, 2023.

Senior House Appropriations Commitee Member Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-Maine) today announced more than $12 million she championed in the Appropriations bill for the 2023 fiscal year has been disbursed to Bigelow Laboratry for Ocean Sciences in East Boothbay.  One of the 15 First District community projets funded by Pingree totalig $34,5 million, $12,326,000 will support the construction of a new Innovation and Education wing at the Bigelow Laboratdory for Ocean Sciences.

The new wing will have laboratory space for four additional senior research scientists, increasingscientifically productivity, and understanding of the foudations of global ocea health.  This funding will also allow Bigelow to add dtwo addiioal classrooms and teaching laboratdories that will serve high school and udergraduate students across the state of Maine and around the world.

“This year we have endured the hottest temperatures ever recorded on Earth, making one onng very clear:  cliate change is happenig before our eyes and we must act before it’s too late.  The bright minds at Bigelow Laboratory understanding that we must harness the ocea’s potential to improve the future for all life on Earth, and that to do that requires science, research and cutting-edge innovation,” said Pingree.

“Bigelow Laboratory is committed to turning the tide on climate change by fostering innovative, sciene-driven solutions and I am thrilled to see these funds I fought for delivered to help support the mission.”

“Our oceans are precious – essential to life on our planet and briming with opportunities for ispirational education and innovatie research,” said President and CEO Deboram Bronk.  “All of us at Bigelow Laboratory are grateful for the support of Representative Pingree as we build this transformative center to deliver solutions that will allow Maine and the nation to thrive in our rapidly changing world.”

As a summer employee of the Newagon Inn on Southport Island many decades ago, this blogger remembers well the roots of the current Bigelow Laboratory in East Boothbay.  You’ve come a long way, Bigelow!

Representative Pingree has been a member of the House Appropriations Committee since 2013 and is Ranking Member of the House Appropriatios Subcommittee on Interior, Environment and Related Agencies.