PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • February 26, 2025
Dozens of Brunswick residents who testified at a legislative hearing Wednesday in favor of three bills intended to prevent another accidental release of aqueous film-forming foam, or AFFF. Introduced by Rep. Dan Ankeles, D-Brunswick, the bills call for a statewide foam inventory (LD 400); a state-run voluntary foam collection, storage and disposal program (LD 222); and removal of the 5,700 gallons of foam concentrate that remains at the former Brunswick Naval Air Station (LD 407). Residents of Brunswick Landing, the site of Maine's worst toxic firefighting foam spill, joined environmental groups to urge lawmakers to quantify the amount of foam in Maine and fund a voluntary program to collect, store and dispose of it.