The preliminary plan is to lease the field to grow other crops that do not absorb as much PFAS as hay does. Any revenue would ...

The state tapped its PFAS relief fund to spend $333,000 to buy a Palermo hay field where sewage sludge was once spread as fertilizer that tested three times the state's recommended level for safe ...

would also set PFAS levels for the food produced by Maine's farmers—another first. "Establishing maximum PFAS levels in farm products in consultation with DHHS, Maine CDC to be done through a ...

While several states, including Minnesota, Rhode Island, and Maine, have moved to ban per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in cookware ...

Since then, unsafe PFAS levels have been found in hundreds of farm fields, crops and livestock, and wells in Maine. Brunswick residents begged not to forgotten as lawmakers manage Maine’s wide-r ...

Test results show that sewage sludge produced in Henrico County has high levels ... or that PFAS can be absorbed upward into crops. Those early findings were enough to lead Maine to ban the ...

In many ways, Maine and Minnesota had the first words on the regulation of PFAS in the U.S. Their broad definitions of the chemicals set the stage for similar regulation across the continent.

Analyzing state well testing data, a team of Bennington College professors and students has determined that PFAS (per- and ...

Maine has led a national effort to study the human and animal health effects of PFAS contamination on farms. The research conducted at the university is typical of land-grant universities ...