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2022 Fall Brunch Celebration
This Sunday, Defend Our Health hosted an in-person event ceremony at our 2022 Fall Brunch Celebration! Event attendees enjoyed an outdoor event at Broadturn Farm
Defend’s Senior Market Campaigner, OpEd in Common Dreams
Last week the independent media outlet Common Dreams published a piece by Maya Rommwatt, our Senior Market Campaigner, highlighting the nefarious collusion between big oil
PET Plastic Report
Over the past few months, we tested 20 popular beverages packaged in plastic bottles and found a cancer-causing plastic chemical in every, single bottle. In the
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
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
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
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
Interview with GWU scientist on links between fast food and toxic chemicals
Recently, Dr. Lariah Edwards, Post-Doctoral Scientist in the Department of Environmental and Occupational Health at George Washington University, a lead author of a new study on
Maine Hearing: Experts & Impacted Residents Testify for Equity, Justice and Movement on Tackling PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’
On Monday, legislators, impacted citizens, scientists and health advocates urged the Environment and Natural Resources Committee to continue to move the state forward in the
