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KeepMEcurrent.com - Noella Joncas has done everything she can think of to make her Lamothe Avenue home in Biddeford more energy efficient. She has replaced all her windows, given her oil furnace a tune up and plans to keep the thermostat down this winter.

www.fund.org - Citing her as one of the top animal protection advocates in the U.S. Senate, the Humane Society Legislative Fund announced that it has endorsed U.S. Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) for reelection.

Senator Collins received this letter recently from the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation:

Dear Senator Collins:

Elections are more than three months away, but Susan Collins is positioned well to win a third term in the U.S. Senate.

Collins, first elected to the Senate by Maine voters in 1996, has showed up 14 percentage points ahead of Democrat Tom Allen, currently a U.S. Representative from the state's First Congressional District. The poll was conducted by the Portland-based firm Critical Insights between June 1 and 27.

A breakdown of how the registered voters surveyed were leaning gave Collins and her supporters cause for cheer.

South Portland Sentry - Letter to the Editor

I recently learned that Sen. Susan Collins has received

a 100 percent rating from the National Federation

of Independent Business. Collins has also received a

perfect score from the League of Conservation Voters, an

organization which advocates for sound environmental

policies. Add to this the fact that Collins has a perfect

voting record. She has never missed a single roll call vote

in her almost 12 years of service in the U.S. Senate.

In these tough economic times, we need a senator who

Associated Press - A bipartisan group of senators from cold-weather states on Thursday criticized plans to cut the federal program helping low-income families make their homes more energy efficient.

While winter heating costs have soared, support for the federal assistance program has dramatically declined. Last February, President Bush proposed eliminating the program altogether.

Seacoastonline.com - Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, is joining Sen. Herb Kohl, D-Wis., in moving bipartisan legislation to protect financially distressed homeowners — often seniors — from unscrupulous financial predators.

In the past five years, mortgage schemes have risen 800 percent, with an estimated 60,000 cases expected this year. In April, the senators introduced legislation aimed at stopping foreclosure scams and are now offering it as an amendment to the comprehensive Foreclosure Prevention Act.

Seacoastonline.com - U.S. Senator Susan Collins was recently presented with the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners "Legislator of the Year Award" by 18 Maine nurse practitioners, who traveled to Washington D.C. for the event. Sen. Collins received the award for her continued support of nurses and their patients...Read more >>

Seacoastonline.com - U.S. Senator Susan Collins today was presented with a Leadership Award from Bread for the World. Senator Collins received the award for her work on issues aimed at hunger and poverty. The award was presented by David Beckmann, President of Bread for the World and Derrick Boykin, New England Regional Organizer of Bread for the World...Read more >>