PFAS chemicals can stay in the body for years without breaking down. Now, a cholesterol medicine that has been around for ...

Updating our earlier post from March 2025, Maine has completed a regulatory process and has adopted updates to its PFAS in products rules to ...

Farmers nationwide often use biosolids — human waste that has been treated by wastewater facilities — as a cheaper, readily ...

Parts of Knox, Thorndike and Unity are the latest additions to a growing list of areas in central Maine with a do-not-eat ...

LIVERMORE FALLS, Maine — The Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife has expanded its PFAS "Do Not Eat" advisory ...

Operators of the Juniper Ridge Landfill in Old Town are moving forward with plans to treat the landfill leachate for PFAS, ...

When Lawrence and Penny Higgins of Fairfield, Maine, learned in 2020 that high levels of toxic chemicals called PFAS tainted their home’s well water, they wondered how their health might suffer.

The state is requiring a treatment system for PFAS chemicals as part of a controversial 61-acre expansion plan at Juniper ...

Harmful and persistent forever chemicals that accumulate in some water bodies can be sprayed onto slopes by machine, but the extent of the risk is unknown. As winters grow warmer, ski resorts are ...

Maine recently published proposed rules (PDF link) aimed at implementation of its existing statute (which we’ve discussed here, here and here) limiting the sale and distribution within the state of ...

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Wildlife officials in Maine have issued a "do not eat wildlife consumption advisory" in several communities in the central part of the state over the possibility of harmful chemicals in animal meat.