Maine’s leading the nation by dumping a cancer-linked toxic chemical.

The Maine Legislature passed a law to eliminate toxic PFAS from products we use every day. We’re the first state to get this done! (LD 1503)

Maine will also protect our firefighters, whose risk of cancer is elevated by exposure to toxic chemicals. No longer will they use firefighting foam containing PFAS—foam that has contaminated soil and water nationwide. (LD 1505)

Drinking water will get safer in schools and homes.

Maine now has one of the strictest limits for PFAS in drinking water. It will no longer be legal to serve water in Maine that is illegal to serve in New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Vermont. (LD 129)

The state will require schools to test drinking water for lead and PFAS, helping to protect children’s developing brains. (LD 206 and LD 129)

Landlords will finally have to test their tenants’ well water for cancer-causing arsenic (a naturally occurring contaminant)—and tenants will have the right
to learn the results. (LD 1570)

Low-income residential well owners can get their water tested for arsenic, for free. That‘s the way life should be, because safe drinking water is a human right. (LD 1570)

Polluters can’t say it’s “too late” to seek help for contaminated land.

Maine’s new statute of limitations now says families facing the life-disrupting horror of land contaminated by PFAS can go to court to seek justice up to six years from when the pollution is discovered, not the old statute of six years from when it happened. (LD 363)

Finally, the state is now required to test farmland for PFAS contamination, where potentially toxic sewer and industrial sludge has been spread as fertilizer. Again, we’re setting a model for other states. (LD 1600)

But here’s why children and families could still lose.

It’s simple: the chemical industry is furious. How dare Maine people and our legislative leaders enact laws that stop them from putting their money-making toxics in our products and environment?

Moments after our bill eliminating PFAS from products became law the industry’s trade association, the American Chemistry Council, issued a press release full of misdirection and half-truths, vowing to fight.

We need your help to fight back. Please help defend our new laws!

With your support, we will continue to educate the public and our elected officials on the true harms of toxic chemicals, working with some of the nation’s leading health experts to expose the chemical industry’s lies. We must hold our state agencies accountable, and watchdog implementation to make sure what happens matches what the new laws promise.

Please don’t let the chemical industry take away what we’ve won for you. 

Here’s what you can do to help us fight back: 

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