With $30 million in state funding, officials plan an unprecedented effort to test sites statewide for chemicals known as PFAS and assist people affected by the pollution.
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Livermore Falls given violation notice for sewage in Clay Brook
State says the circumstances were known to those monitoring the pump station since at least May 2014.
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Willard Beach in South Portland could be closed for days because of oil spill
Cleanup crews are removing used motor oil that likely originated from a Cottage Road service station and was discharged from a storm drain pipe.
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Litchfield approves second phase of Woodbury Pond Dam repair
The second phase includes permitting for sandbags, geotechnical exploration and conceptual engineering design, with costs not to exceed $45,800.
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CMP, transmission line backers plan to appeal termination of crucial land lease
The companies’ announcement of an appeal comes one day after Maine’s DEP commissioner initiated the process to suspend New England Clean Energy Connect’s permit.
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Invasive watermilfoil returns in Cobbossee Lake despite efforts to eradicate the plant
“A lake that becomes really infested (with the invasive Eurasian watermilfoil plant) is absolutely useless to everybody,” said John Stanek, vice commodore of the CYC Lake Association.
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DEP says no permit violated in clearing Maine woods for corridor transmission line
The 145-mile power line project dubbed the New England Clean Energy Connect would serve as a conduit for up to 1,200 megawatts of Canadian hydropower to reach the New England power grid.
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AskME: How do we know if swimming at Maine beaches is safe?
A program called Maine Healthy Beaches monitors conditions at more than 60 locations around the state.
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Trail of ‘forever chemicals’ leads to Maine paper mills
The manufacturing industry, which has used PFAS for decades, faces a reckoning as the state grapples with soil and water contamination.
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Maine lawmakers enact series of bills to tackle pollution from ‘forever chemicals’
One of the bills signed into law this week by Gov. Janet Mills gives Maine one of the nation’s strictest standards for PFAS in drinking water.