BANGOR DAILY NEWS • October 7, 2021
An organization representing forest products businesses and a logging company have filed a federal lawsuit in an attempt to scuttle a new law that prohibits large landowners from hiring foreign truck drivers to haul logs harvested in Maine to other destinations in the state. The Maine Forest Products Council, sued the director of the Maine Bureau of Forestry and the Maine Attorney General arguing that the law violated the supremacy and equal protection clauses of the U.S. Constitution.