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Maine buys second PFAS-contaminated farm
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22 May 2026 | Portland Press Herald
The state has bought a second farm poisoned by forever chemicals, acquiring a 45-acre property in Unity abandoned by its owners after they discovered their water, fields, produce, and even their blood were saturated by dangerous toxins.
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State announces $3 million in PFAS Fund research grants to support impacted farms
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15 May 2026 | Maine Public
The Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry is currently working with 127 sites to provide testing, financial assistance, research, and technical support to help farmers make informed decisions and continue operating safely.
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Maine went all-in on the state’s PFAS problem 5 years ago. What can Wisconsin learn?
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11 May 2026 | Wisconsin Public Radio
The funding will help with PFAS testing and remediation efforts around the state, including money for new wells and a provision to protect “innocent landowners” who have pollution on their property through no fault of their own.
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[Video] Maine nonprofit seeks volunteers to help find products containing PFAS
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8 May 2026 | News Center Maine
Defend Our Health has coordinated with the Maine Department of Public Health to send volunteers into stores to verify that products, such as cookware, do not contain PFAS.
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Maine is tightening limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water. Are communities ready?
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22 Apr 2026 | Portland Press Herald
That’s less difficult for a larger utility such as the Sanford Water District, which already has qualified technicians on its payroll, according to its superintendent, David Parent, but strenuous for others.
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Watchdog searching for stores selling now banned products with PFAS in Maine
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7 Jan 2026 | WGME
Defend Our Health says a lot of online retailers have marked PFAS products not deliverable to Maine, while others have tried to comply, but missed a few products.
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Maine expands PFAS products ban in 2026
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28 Dec 2025 | Maine Public
State regulators expect manufacturers and retailers to comply with the new rules which prohibit selling goods containing PFAS.
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Maine was first to ban spreading PFAS-contaminated sludge on farmland. Now sludge is filling up landfills.
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28 Nov 2025 | Sentient Health
“When we think about policy change around PFAS in commercial products and our waste stream, we tend to focus on economic impacts,” said Adam Nordell, a farmer who had to close his operations a few years ago over high PFAS contamination and who now advocates about farmland contamination risks. “But at the end of the day, it’s a story about human health.”
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Turkey Warning Issued for Thousands of People Ahead of Thanksgiving
Policy
3 Nov 2025
Hunters across central Maine are being warned not to consume any wild turkey shot in certain townships, as the game could be contaminated by "forever chemicals," officials from the Maine Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife warned.
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Farmer sees hope in breakthrough cholesterol drug for PFAS treatment
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30 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
Doctors are studying the use of an older cholesterol drug to reduce PFAS more quickly from the body.
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PFAS 'Do Not Eat' advisory expands for hunting harvests in central Maine
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22 Oct 2025 | NEWS CENTER Maine
The advisory warns people not to consume deer and wild turkey harvested in several towns.
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Concentrations of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in private well drinking water and serum of individuals exposed to PFAS through biosolids: The Maine Biosolids Study
Science
20 Oct 2025 | Environ. Pollut.
Individuals living near farmland where PFAS-contaminated biosolids were historically applied had elevated PFAS in their private well water and blood, especially PFOA, which showed a strong water-to-serum correlation, demonstrating that biosolids can be a major exposure source and that some people may still have high serum levels even when their current water meets standards.
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Maine begins covering cost of PFAS blood testing
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18 Oct 2025 | News Center Maine
The state-funded initiative aims to help residents in contaminated areas afford critical blood tests for toxic PFAS exposure.
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[Press Release] Ranking Member Pingree: Trump’s EPA is Failing to Protect Americans from ‘Forever Chemical’ Contamination
Policy
16 Oct 2025
Maine Congresswoman Chellie Pingree, Ranking Member of the House Appropriations Interior and Environment Subcommittee, is calling for transparency and immediate action from the EPA after it was reported the Agency is withholding a long-delayed PFAS risk assessment.
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Long-awaited report reveals electrical fault likely caused Brunswick PFAS spill
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6 Oct 2025 | Central Maine
A fault in an electric module likely caused Maine’s largest reported spill of toxic firefighting foam, a new report on the spill’s root cause has concluded.