PFAS in Food Packaging The Department of Environmental Protection will conduct one or more stakeholder meetings to develop a proposed major substantive rule to prohibit manufacturers, suppliers and distributors from offering for sale or for promotional purposes in Maine four types of food packaging to which per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances...
Board of Environmental Protection has rescheduled NECEC appeals for deliberation
--- PRESS RELEASE --- For Immediate Release Board of Environmental Protection has rescheduled NECEC appeals for deliberation AUGUSTA, May 23 2022 — The Board of Environmental Protection has rescheduled a meeting originally set for May 17-18, 2002, to consider appeals of the Site Location of Development and Natural Resources Protection...
DEP has awarded the first round of funds for recycling and organics management projects in 2022
--- PRESS RELEASE --- For Immediate Release DEP has awarded the first round of funds for recycling and organics management projects in 2022 AUGUSTA, May 23, 2022 — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection recently announced the first (spring) round of 2022 Waste Diversion Grant award recipients for recycling and...