U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

"This funding will help communities assess and clean up contaminated sites so they can be safely redeveloped for housing, businesses, recreation and other community priorities," said Mark Sanborn, the EPA's regional administrator for New England.

Maine’s Solar for All program was expected to help some 20,000 low-income Maine households save between $380 and $1,400 annually on energy bills.

The University of Maine received notice from the EPA that its previously terminated $1.6 million grant for PFAS research has now been fully funded. It's one of 16 UMaine System awards that have been restored.

Hazardous materials and deteriorated structures are the focus of federal brownfields cleanup grants designed to support redevelopment and infrastructure investment.

Superfund sites in Limestone, Corinna, Washburn, Saco and Brunswick are all on the EPA's "national priorities" list.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Grimmel Industries Inc. didn’t have the correct air emissions license for releasing certain chemicals at a Topsham scrap metal shredder.

A grant of $350,000, awarded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, will go to USM's New England Environmental Finance Center, which is part of the university’s Catherine Cutler Institute.

The first company in North America to produce insulation from wood fiber, TimberHP will install equipment and software to capture energy and raw material usage data.

From 1959 until 1981, Saco Tannery Corp. disposed of 23 million gallons of toxic waste. Remediation since the 1983 Superfund listing is followed by five-year reviews.

The settlement includes a penalty and supplemental lead-based paint abatement projects. Two of four units were leased to families with children.