Lawmakers from Maine and Massachusetts also said New England should take a regional approach to PFAS, especially amid ...

Maine’s prohibition on farmers using treated sewage sludge as fertilizer on their agricultural fields could serve as a model ...

A group of Massachusetts lawmakers, officials and advocates are visiting Maine on Tuesday to learn more about how to prevent ...

A delegation from Massachusetts, including lawmakers from the state, took a trip north on Tuesday to meet with some of ...

In 2022, Maine became the first state to ban spreading sewage sludge on farms and the sale of compost that contains sludge.

Massachusetts lawmakers and advocates who visited Maine Tuesday are aiming to replicate that state’s playbook in tackling contamination caused by PFAS forever chemicals, particularly sewage ...

Lawmakers from Massachusetts and Maine convened at a farm in Arundel to address the pressing issue of PFAS contamination.

State leaders, officials, legislators, and stakeholders from Massachusetts traveled to Maine to get answers on how the state ...

PFAS are a chemically diverse family of over 10,000 synthetic fluorinated compounds, all containing at least one ...

Maine legislators recently passed, with overwhelming support, a bill—modeled after one in New Hampshire—that would require insurers to consider PFAS blood testing part of preventive care, but ...

Rep. Laurie Osher (D-Orono) also introduced a similar proposal to expand testing for PFAS substances in private drinking wells, which aren’t regulated under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.

Screening for PFAS is falling short in many places nationwide, said Kyle Horton, MD, an internist in Wilmington, North Carolina, and founder of the nonprofit On Your Side Health. She estimates that ...