Opinion: For the health of Greater Casco Bay, Wyman Station cannot be allowed to skirt clean air laws

PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • May 30, 2026

Wyman Power Station on Cousins Island, which burns heavy and residual oil, recently submitted a request for a clean air exemption to the Maine Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) that would allow it to avoid complying with updated air quality standards for nitrous oxides for 13 more years. Wyman should not be granted this exemption. By May 2026, sources like Wyman Station that emit NOx were required to reduce their emissions with new technology or seek the use of alternate technology. A major energy company valued at more than $200 billion should not be allowed to skirt these common-sense safeguards. ~ Ivy Frignoca, Friends of Casco Bay; Luke Frankel, Natural Resources Council of Maine