The advisory, issued with the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, warns people not to eat deer or wild turkey ...

Covering the cost of blood tests for more than 600 households in areas where farms used sludge to fertilize their fields ...

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

The state-funded initiative aims to help residents in contaminated areas afford critical blood tests for toxic PFAS exposure.

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.

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 ...

Click here for a downloadable version of these survey highlights. To learn more about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in and from firefighting, Maine Morning Star and the nonprofit Pulitzer ...

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 ...

Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) recently published a proposed rule prescribing procedures and criteria for determining Currently Unavoidable Uses (CUU) of intentionally added per- ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A University of Maine researcher had a light bulb moment while watching news ...

Jan. 12—As winters grow warmer, ski resorts are increasingly relying on machine-made snow to keep their trails open and powder-loving customers happy. But what happens when the water used to make the ...