SPECTRUM NEWS • October 6, 2022
Elizabeth Fuller Valentine, who has worked with the firm Jackson and MacNichol and with the Maine Community Law Center in Portland, is the state’s new PFAS Fund Director, the state announced Wednesday. Valentine will lead a new committee that will direct $60 million to farmers with costs associated with PFAS contamination. Those costs may include direct support for lost income or equipment for remediation strategies, medical testing and monitoring for farmers and their families and research that could identify soil and water remediation systems. Gov. Janet Mills also announced that 15 people will serve on an advisory committee.