EPA

The Trump administration and the EPA have announced plans to eliminate rules that require power plants to curb greenhouse gas emissions, as well as air-borne pollutants like mercury.

The University of Maine said the Trump administration has restored a federal grant for PFAS research that was terminated last month, but the agency has not reinstated other PFAS research grants to Maine groups.

The Environmental Protection Agency announced today that it will remove previously announced limits on some PFAS, and delay implementation for standards on others — a move that Maine advocates call unprecedented and dangerous.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin terminated $20 billion in clean energy funding this week; Efficiency Maine will lose $15 million in promised funds

The state is disproportionately harmed by pollution floating in on prevailing winds.

Federal agencies are withholding awards from former President Joe Biden's signature legislation.

Both spills were caused by freight train derailments.

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding up to $28 million a year to Maine public water systems for five years to identify and replace lead service lines. The federal government says 40% of the funding must go to disadvantaged communities

The Keddy Mill complex in Windham has been on the EPA's list of Superfund sites since 2014 after studies found PCBs, heavy metals, petroleum products and other contaminants. The property, which is located in the Little Falls area of the Presumpscot River, had been the site of multiple mills beginning in the mid-1700s.

Two Maine companies have agreed to pay more than $370,000 in penalties to settle cases with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for violating the federal Clean Air Act.