Maine requires so-called PFAS to be phased out by 2030
Associated PressAUGUSTA, Maine — A bill requiring manufacturers to report their use of a class of toxic chemicals and phase them out by 2030 is now the law in Maine. The law that took effect Thursday was one of several legislative proposals to address contamination by so-called PFAS, short for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, which have long been used in a variety of consumer products. Linda Birnbaum, former director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program, said she hopes the Maine law serve as “a model for other policy makers.” “The more we study PFAS, the more we learn of their harm to human health,” she said. Last year, state regulators found PFAS levels more than 150 times higher than the state’s milk standard on a Fairfield dairy farm that had used contaminated sludge as fertilizer. But the bill requiring the chemicals to be phased out altogether may be the most important of the PFAS bills, Dr. Lani Graham, a former chief public health officer for Maine, said previously.
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