PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • April 3, 2023
Maine became one of the first states in the nation to pass a class-wide ban on all new products containing substances categorized as PFAS by the Environmental Protection Agency which will take effect in 2030, and a class-wide reporting requirement that took effect on Jan. 1, 2023. These new policies make Maine an outlier among other states, and they make the state a case study for why overreaching regulation poses a threat to limit readily accessible materials, materials that allow Maine to move forward on many fronts. ~ Dale Crafts, former legislator and the 2020 Republican candidate for Congress