{"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 UMaine 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_robots_primary_cat":"none","_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":[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":30,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":1,"category_count":30,"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}]}}