PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 9, 2021
Environmental groups, public health advocates and families living with contaminated wells urged lawmakers on Tuesday to join its New England neighbors in adopting even more stringent limits on the chemicals. “I’d like to see Maine set an example, not follow it,” said Lawrence Higgins, a Fairfield resident whose well is among more than two dozen in the area contaminated by PFAS believed to be in sludge that was used as farm fertilizer. “I like to be a leader and I feel Maine should be that way.” Maine lawmakers will consider more than a half dozen bills this session dealing with per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, after work on the issue was shelved last year amid the developing COVID-19 pandemic.