MAINE MORNING STAR • March 23, 2026
For the second time, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection has found that expanding the Juniper Ridge Landfill would benefit the public. The department issued a second positive public benefit determination Monday after a judge struck down the first determination earlier this year. “The court couldn’t have been clearer: look at the full picture – the pollution, the history, the cumulative harm,” Nora Bosworth, a staff attorney at Conservation Law Foundation, said in a press release after the decision. “Instead, DEP has once again treated environmental justice as a checkbox rather than a commitment to the people the law was meant to protect.”