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Forever Chemicals: US dairy farmer’s ‘nightmare’

epa11648859 Dairy farmer Fred Stone stands on the hill in the one small 2 acre (8100 sq m) section of his farmland that he can still use for his cows as grazing, in Arundel, Maine, USA, 28 February 2024. The soil of over 60 acres (243,000 sq m) of fields at Stoneridge Farm is contaminated with PFAS, following the state program of providing wastewater sludge to Maine farmers as free fertilizer in the 1980's. Stone, the owner of Stoneridge Farm has been struggling to keep his PFAS (Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) contaminated farm in business and making it safe again, a nearly impossible task, is considering converting the unusable fields to a solar panel farm. ATTENTION: For the full FOCUS ESSAY text please go to: https://epaimages.com/misc.pp?code=section-focus

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