{"id":27559,"date":"2022-11-30T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=27559"},"modified":"2022-11-30T12:16:13","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T17:16:13","slug":"schattman-featured-in-bdn-interview-on-addressing-pfas-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2022\/11\/30\/schattman-featured-in-bdn-interview-on-addressing-pfas-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"Schattman featured in BDN discussion on addressing PFAS challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-23664 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Applying biosolids to farm fields\" width=\"259\" height=\"146\" srcset=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-105x59.jpg 105w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-600x338.jpg 600w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-317x178.jpg 317w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-423x238.jpg 423w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-634x357.jpg 634w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-846x476.jpg 846w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-951x535.jpg 951w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21-320x180.jpg 320w, https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/293\/2021\/06\/PFAS-Image-Block-6-3-21.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,259px\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/rachel-schattman\/\">Rachel Schattman<\/a>, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, was one of three people studying \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and removing the toxic compounds from the environment who discussed what they want to see happen next to address contamination, at a forum on Tuesday, November 15 organized by the Bangor Daily News and Maine Farmland Trust.<\/p>\n<p>Schattman discussed what is known and not known about how to remove per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from soil. She is in the early stages of research on how PFAS chemicals are absorbed by crops.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2022\/11\/20\/mainefocus\/pfas-researchers-questions-and-answers-joam40zk0w\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bangor Daily News article<\/a> includes the panelists&#8217; answers to some questions from the Bangor Daily News, Maine Farmland Trust and the public. You can also listen to the entire conversation at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u5oinp9Q40U\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.youtube.com\/watch?v=u5oinp9Q40U<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rachel Schattman, assistant professor of sustainable agriculture and Mitchell Center Faculty Fellow, was one of three people studying \u201cforever chemicals\u201d and removing the toxic compounds from the environment who discussed what they want to see happen next to address contamination, at a forum on Tuesday, November 15 organized by the Bangor Daily News and Maine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":957,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":3,"label":"News"}]},"featured_image_src_large":false,"author_info":{"display_name":"mitchellcenter","author_link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/author\/mitchellcenter\/"},"comment_info":0,"category_info":[{"term_id":3,"name":"News","slug":"news","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":3,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":613,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":3,"category_count":613,"category_description":"","cat_name":"News","category_nicename":"news","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/957"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27559"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27562,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27559\/revisions\/27562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}