UMAINE • February 28, 2025
Lauri Gorton, Program Manager, Greenfield Penobscot Estuary Remediation Trust LLC, will provide an overview of one of the largest environmental cleanups underway in Maine, designed to reduce exposure to mercury in the Penobscot River estuary – the state’s longest river. In 2022, the U.S. District Court in Maine approved a Consent Decree that created and funded two environmental response trusts to settle the 20-year lawsuit. As Greenfield’s Program Manager for the Penobscot Estuary Mercury Remediation Trust, Lauri is responsible for leading the trust’s technical, regulatory, and communications programs designed to address mercury contamination in the Estuary. The talk will be held virtually via Zoom and in-person at 107 Norman Smith Hall, UMaine, Orono, March 3, 2035, 3 pm.