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  • Welcome Summer 22′ Organizing Interns

    Welcome Summer 22′ Organizing Interns

    Or team is very excited to introduce our summer interns working on the Safe Drinking Water campaign and our new Healthy Homes program. Caitlyn Hanley…

  • 2022 Legislative Victories

    2022 Legislative Victories

    It was a busy second session of the 130th Maine legislature! Defend worked hard with our friends in the legislature to move policy that will…

  • Mark Hyland, Board Chair for Defend Our Health Speaks on PFAS in REI

    Mark Hyland, Board Chair for Defend Our Health Speaks on PFAS in REI

    I’ve been an REI member since 1973 and I still have some of my first favorite purchases, like this cotton anorak, I bought before I…

  • 2022 Priority Bills

    2022 Priority Bills

    PFAS Bills: LD 1911 “An Act To Prohibit the Contamination of Clean Soils with So-called Forever Chemicals.” This bill would ban the spreading of sludge and…