PORTLAND PRESS HERALD • May 20, 2024
Maine will receive $33 million from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to assess and clean up sites that have been polluted or contaminated by industrial use. The money is part of the Biden administration’s initiative to transform once-polluted and now abandoned properties into community assets. Eight communities in Maine will share $22 million in grants through the EPA’s Multipurpose, Assessment and Cleanup program that targets so-called brownfield sites that cannot be redeveloped because of contamination. Another $11 million will be distributed to four already existing programs in Maine that support brownfield cleanup.