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A federal loophole is keeping Mainers in the dark about which manufacturers are discharging PFAS in their waste as the state prepares to spend millions to address contamination.
increase font size 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. Share Nathan Saunders, whose well was contaminated by sludge that was spread on nearby fields, poses Thursday in front of the field located directly across the street from his home in Fairfield. Shawn Patrick Ouellette/Staff Photographer FAIRFIELD — For 32 of its 33 years in this quiet corner of central Maine farm country, the Saunders family has reveled in the solitude, the wi...
Twin Rivers Paper completes biomass cogeneration unit maintenance shutdown in Edmundston, New Brunswick 23:59 / May 6, 2021 Twin Rivers Paper Company’s Edmundston pulp mill recently completed a biomass cogeneration unit maintenance shutdown; a project which began in the middle of April. In planning for more than a year, the project was designed to maintain and refurbish the co-generation unit to ensure green power continues to flow to the grid uninterrupted. “The last 14 months have been a challenge for everyone with the COVID-19 pandemic, and the last number of months have been a rolle...