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Students at two Aroostook county schools will start the year drinking bottled water, until the district can finish installing a new filtration system.
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Maine environmental regulators are moving forward with plans to ban the sale of food packaging made with PFAS, joining a small but growing number of states targeting a potential exposure pathway to the “forever chemicals.”
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Analysis suggests that combined, Maine facilities release just under 25 pounds of chemicals annually.
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The plan describes how Maine will administer some $70 million in state and federal funds to farmers whose land or water is contaminated with PFAS.
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A new law signed by Gov. Janet Mills this week will prioritize contaminated farm and industrial land as sites for potential renewable energy projects in Maine.
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The conservation group Friends of Casco Bay has begun collecting ambient water samples from 20 locations in the bay that will be tested for PFAS contamination by Bigelow Laboratories for Ocean Sciences.
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Under a law passed last year, pesticides that contain "intentionally added" PFAS cannot be sold in Maine starting in 2030. In the meantime, Maine's Board of Pesticides Control has begun compiling a list of chemicals that the state has flagged as belonging to the PFAS family.
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An advisory committee is considering a plan to spend millions of dollars from a new state PFAS response fund to provide farmers with loan assistance, research, land purchases and medical monitoring and support.
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On Wednesday, members of the Legislature's Environment and Natural Resources Committee voted unanimously to push back that reporting requirement to January of 2025.
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State environmental officials say they support a two-year suspension of new restrictions on out-of-state waste.