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The Winners and Losers of Maine’s Race to Armor Its Shoreline Against Climate Change
Maine quarries proliferate as property owners in coastal towns build sea walls, triggering a speight of local ordinances regulating where the rocks come and and where they go.
By Emmett Gartner
GORHAM, Maine—Supersonic shockwaves shook the bones of Charlie Hamblen’s historic Maine farmhouse more than a dozen times last year, travelling over half a mile from blasts at a nearby quarry.