PFAS

The agency said an industry request to exempt pots and pans with nonstick coatings did not meet standards for unavoidable uses of forever chemicals.

The new advisories apply to game fish caught in Lovejoy Pond in Albion, the Sebasticook River in Burnham and Benton, Collyer Brook in Gray, and Androscoggin Lake in Leeds and Wayne.

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.

One provision of the bill would require home sellers to disclose whether their private well was tested for the "forever chemicals."

Maine organizations researching PFAS are the latest groups to face sudden grant terminations, this time from the Environmental Protection Agency.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin testified today that the agency removed maximum contaminant levels of four PFAS chemicals because there was a procedural error in how the standards were set and they could be restored in the future.

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.

Maine was the first state to ban land application of sludge in 2022 after the discovery of widespread PFAS contamination of farms.

For the first time, Maine has bought a farm with PFAS contamination. The state has closed on a property in Palermo and is working on two more sales.

Three bills introduced to Maine's legislative session would chart a path toward removing thousands of gallons of PFAs foam from the state.