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Area businesses and other interests are starting a campaign to convince the Canadian government not to permanently close its port of entry on Deer Island, which provided customs clearance for the ferry service from Eastport to Deer Island Point.

The Passamaquoddy Tribe is now using most of its land in Maine that it acquired through funding from the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act both to slow the rate of climate change and to generate millions in revenue by offsetting emissions from polluters on the other side of the country.