A doctor doing environmental health research in rural Maine is working to establish the best practices to treat patients ...

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

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 ...

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.

The Commission is soliciting clean energy projects located on PFAS-contaminated farmland, with proposals due next Friday, ...

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

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 ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Maine has been in the midst of a PFAS contamination crisis for years ...

PFAS contamination in Maine has been largely linked to the spreading of sludge on farms, which began in the 1970s as an alternative to fertilizer. Decades later, ...

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 ...

Health Maine asks hunters to avoid eating deer, turkey in some areas because of PFAS contamination The presence of the “forever chemicals” in wildlife and fish has been increasing as a focus ...