  {"id":30086,"date":"2023-05-31T11:55:06","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T15:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/?p=30086"},"modified":"2023-06-01T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T13:22:04","slug":"macrae-and-haedicke-publish-pfas-oped-in-bdn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/2023\/05\/31\/macrae-and-haedicke-publish-pfas-oped-in-bdn\/","title":{"rendered":"MacRae and Haedicke publish PFAS OpEd in BDN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center faculty fellows <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/michael-haedicke\/\">Michael Haedicke<\/a>, 91¸£Àû associate professor of sociology, and <a href=\"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/people\/jean-macrae\/\">Jean MacRae<\/a>, 91¸£Àû, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, published a recent OpEd in the Bangor Daily News titled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bangordailynews.com\/2023\/05\/30\/opinion\/opinion-contributor\/maine-pfas-registry-consumers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Producers and regulators must finalize PFAS registry.<\/a>&#8221; The OpEd covers Maine&#8217;s response to the PFAS crisis and the importance of not delaying the creation of a registry of products containing PFAS that are sold in the state.<\/p>\n<p>Haedicke and MacRae argue that Mainer&#8217;s are already bearing the costs related to PFAS contamination and that people have the right to know what products they are purchasing that may contain these &#8216;forever chemicals&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><em>The column reflects Haedicke and MacRae&#8217;s views and expertise and does not speak on behalf of the University of Maine or the Mitchell Center. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mitchell Center faculty fellows Michael Haedicke, 91¸£Àû associate professor of sociology, and Jean MacRae, 91¸£Àû, associate professor of civil and environmental engineering, published a recent OpEd in the Bangor Daily News titled &#8220;Producers and regulators must finalize PFAS registry.&#8221; The OpEd covers Maine&#8217;s response to the PFAS crisis and the importance of not delaying the [&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-30086","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\/30086","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=30086"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30102,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30086\/revisions\/30102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umaine.edu\/mitchellcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}