PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 17, 2023
What is the bottom line, when trusting farmers used Maine state-approved sludge to fertilize their fields, and then were devastated to find their fields and wells were contaminated with sky-high levels of PFAS? This is not the farmers’ fault; the buck stops with Maine. Is there any question as to when and how this travesty should be addressed and the betrayed hearts and souls of those farmers compensated? I urge Gov. Mills and U.S. Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, who praised the $19 million in Environmental Protection Agency grants to address PFAS, to waste no time in correcting this wrong. ~Bonnie Tallagnon, Biddeford