Residents Urge Maine To Continue Mitigation Of PFAS In Biosolids

Maine residents are largely praising the state agriculture department’s ongoing first-in-the-country efforts to comprehensively address PFAS contamination on farms from the land application of biosolids, urging the department to continue prohibiting the application of biosolids and to expand healthcare resources. The feedback comes in written and oral comments to Maine’s Department of Agriculture, Conservation & Forestry (DACF) on its implementation of the state’s PFAS Fund, which Gov. Janet Mills (D) established in 2022 to support farmers whose land has been...