{"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 海角社区 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 海角社区 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%20海角社区%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\/TheUniversityof海角社区\/featured\">YouTube<\/a>\u00a0or \u201cThe 海角社区 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 U海角社区 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 海角社区 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\/海角社区-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}]}}