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More than 60 Maine farms have been identified as having unsafe levels of PFAS chemicals in their soil and water. The source of the contamination was municipal sludge, which had been spread on farms as fertilizer for decades.
Risks from ‘forever chemicals’ have ended a half-century of spreading sludge onto Maine farmland and raised unanswered questions about contamination of foods.
In Maine, which has some of the strongest PFAS regulations in the United States, at least 60 farms have been designated with unsafe levels of “forever chemicals,” according to Alexander, of Maine Organic Farmers and G...
ARUNDEL (WGME) – PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, have been nothing short of disastrous for hundreds of Maine farmers. It's ruined their land, made their cattle, milk and eggs unsafe...
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...
When tests in the state of Maine showed dozens of farms and hundreds of drinking water wells were poisoned by forever chemicals, the state banned the use of biosolids.
One family had to give up their dreams of an organic farm in Maine after discovering the land they bought had been contaminated years earlier.
Maine is the first state in the country to buy out a farmer driven off his land by forever chemicals.
The couple learned the farm’s previous owner had decades earlier used PFAS-tainted sewage sludge, or ‘biosolids’, as fertilizer on Songbird’s fields. Testing revealed their soil, drinking water, irrigation water, crop...
UNITY, Maine — State regulators have identified more than 80 farms and more than 500 residential properties that have been contaminated by "forever chemicals" as part of a long-term investigation.
