{"id":7622,"date":"2026-03-23T12:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/?p=7622"},"modified":"2026-03-23T12:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T16:49:11","slug":"ees-faculty-featured-on-the-maine-question-exploring-the-reality-of-forever-chemicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/2026\/03\/23\/ees-faculty-featured-on-the-maine-question-exploring-the-reality-of-forever-chemicals\/","title":{"rendered":"EES Faculty Featured on &#8220;The Maine Question&#8221; Exploring the Reality of &#8216;Forever Chemicals&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc\"]{font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_f5f7a8-bc\">This week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Maine Question&#8221; features EES-affiliated faculty Jean MacRae, Christina Murphy, Caroline Noblet, and Rachel Schattman! Their expertise is invaluable in the conversation surrounding PFAS research and regulation. Host, Ron Lisnet, focuses on how their work, spanning engineering, economics, agriculture, and conservation biology, is helping communities confront PFAS and chart a cleaner path forward.<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_941be7-be\"]{font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_941be7-be\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_941be7-be\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading7622_941be7-be wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_941be7-be\">Listen to the podcast on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/the-maine-question\/id1483253073\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/search\/The%20Maine%20Question\">Google Podcasts<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/user-487884086\">SoundCloud<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/2yASvorUxtGCzDYtg15C2S?si=hamS1k_cTzW4BE1QvKAGig\">Spotify<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/TheUniversityofMaine\/featured\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cThe Maine Question\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/podcasts\/\">website<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50\"]{font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-family:forma-djr-micro;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50 img.kb-inline-image, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50\"] img.kb-inline-image{width:150px;vertical-align:baseline;}<\/style>\n<p class=\"kt-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading7622_53b4fa-50\">Check out the link to the original 91¸£Àû news article <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/the-maine-question-explores-the-reality-of-forever-chemicals\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/news\/2026\/03\/the-maine-question-explores-the-reality-of-forever-chemicals\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week&#8217;s episode of &#8220;The Maine Question&#8221; features EES-affiliated faculty Jean MacRae, Christina Murphy, Caroline Noblet, and Rachel Schattman! Their expertise is invaluable in the conversation surrounding PFAS research and regulation. Host, Ron Lisnet, focuses on how their work, spanning engineering, economics, agriculture, and conservation biology, is helping communities confront PFAS and chart a cleaner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2569,"featured_media":7625,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","spc_primary_category":0},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":1,"label":"Uncategorized"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/774\/2026\/03\/Maine-Question-Podcast-rectangle-thumbnail-768x432-1.jpg",768,432,false],"author_info":{"display_name":"selderkin","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/author\/selderkin\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":1,"name":"Uncategorized","slug":"uncategorized","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":1,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":31,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":31,"category_description":"","cat_name":"Uncategorized","category_nicename":"uncategorized","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7622"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7626,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7622\/revisions\/7626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/ecologyandenvironmentalsciences\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}