When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS tainted ...

The Maine Public Utilities Commission said it would only select projects that would lower the cost of electrical generation ...

A nonprofit group has purchased a central Maine farm that is heavily contaminated with PFAS and is opening it up to researchers with the goal of shedding light on ways to handle "forever chemicals ...

University of Maine researchers are creating a low-cost PFAS testing tool for farmers that delivers faster results via ...

Tools to address PFAS pollution are limited. Here's what researchers are learning about how these chemicals travel through the environment — and what farmers and landowners can do about it.

How to learn more. More information about PFAS contamination can be found on the Maine Department of Environmental Protection’s website. Residents in the Fairfield area can find more information ...

A nonprofit group has purchased a central Maine farm that is heavily contaminated with PFAS and is opening it up to researchers with the goal of shedding light on ways to handle "forever chemicals ...

Jan. 15—With their multiyear investigation not yet halfway complete, Maine state inspectors have identified more than 100 Maine farms and 500 residential properties contaminated by the harmful ...

Fred Stone pets Marybell, a swiss limousin calf born in December, at his Arundel dairy farm. Stone’s farm was among the first in Maine to shut down because of PFAS contamination from the ...