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Dairy Farm “Ruined” by PFAS Contaminants
ARUNDEL, Maine — More than two years after learning drinking water and milk tanks on his 100-year-old Stoneridge Farm were contaminated with a class of chemicals linked to cancer and other health concerns, farmer Fred Stone still can’t sell his milk and is losing hundreds of dollars a day, every day. Stone said he never… Read more »
State Urged To Prevent Exposure To Harmful Chemicals Found In Sewage Sludge
Two weeks after Gov. Janet Mills signed an executive order to study the prevalence of a family of chemicals that pose potential public health risks, environment and health advocates are urging her to do more. They staged their call to action Tuesday at a dairy farm in Arundel, where contamination from the chemicals known as… Read more »
Public Health Experts Aim to Stop Spreading of Sludge
Fred Stone says he can’t sell milk from his herd because of exposure to PFAS, chemicals linked to cancer that were found in the sludge he spread on his fields for decades. ARUNDEL — Public health advocates on Tuesday called for Maine to ban the use of municipal sludge as fertilizer and to phase out… Read more »
Top Environmental Medicine Scientist to Reveal Toxic Chemical Research Findings to Maine Legislators
Presentation on Toxic Chemicals in Food Additives Open to the Public this Morning AUGUSTA, Maine, March 20, 2019—At an information session open to the public this morning, an internationally recognized environmental health expert will brief Maine legislators on research findings related to health-harming toxic chemical food additives that include PFAS, a class of chemicals currently making headlines in Maine and worldwide.… Read more »
Strategy Center Statement on PFAS
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: Elyse Tipton, (207) 699-5775 or (207) 632-8983 cell/text Farmlands Threatened by Toxic “Forever Chemicals” from Industry Advocates Slam State’s Failure to Investigate Potential Widespread Contamination from Sludge Spreading after Toxic Chemicals in Milk from Maine Dairy Farm Were Found at Highest Known Level ARUNDEL, Maine, March 19, 2019—The same highly toxic industrial chemicals… Read more »
Action Needed on Toxic Chemicals that Threaten Public Health and the Environment
For Immediate Release: March 6, 2019 Action Needed on Toxic Chemicals that Threaten Public Health and the Environment In response to an Executive Order… Read more »
Bill would require all Maine schools to test for lead in drinking water
“AUGUSTA — Lawmakers are once again considering requiring schools to test drinking water for lead following the discovery of elevated levels of the harmful metal in some schools connected to public water systems. Under current law, the roughly 300 schools that draw their water from wells must test for lead at least once every three… Read more »
Amazon.com bans deadly paint strippers, signaling growing trend in retail sector
Advocates call on EPA to finalize proposed ban, protect Americans from toxic products Washington, D.C., and Portland, Maine — In response to a national public health campaign in which the Portland, Maine-based Environmental Health Strategy Center is a key leader, Amazon.com posted a new policy prohibiting the sale of the toxic chemicals methylene chloride and… Read more »
In Maine, for the First Time: Researcher Who Uncovered Links between Toxic Chemical Exposure and Dining Out, Eating Fast Food
SOUTH PORTLAND, November 15, 2018—The renowned public health researcher whose groundbreaking study of toxic chemicals in food made national headlines this year is coming to Maine, for the first time, to speak about her leading-edge research and its implications for children, pregnant women, and health fairness and justice. Ami Zota, ScD, MS, of George Washington… Read more »
Maine-Based Public Health Organization Names 2018 Leadership Award Winners
Awards go to an internationally renowned children’s health expert and, from Maine, a Monmouth-based advocate, Downeast community organization, and Falmouth-based entrepreneur PORTLAND, Maine, October 31, 2018—A sustainable business entrepreneur, an internationally renowned public health expert, a community organization working for a more inclusive Downeast Maine, and a longtime Maine advocate for public health and the… Read more »