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News Tipoffs - Massachusetts Editors Newsletter for Thursday September 25, 2025 ( 2 items )  

First-in-the-Nation PFAS Response Program Now Permanent Thanks to New Law From Sen. Ingwersen
AUGUSTA, Maine, Sept. 25 -- The Maine Senate Democrats issued the following news on behalf of Maine State Sen. Henry Ingwersen, D-Arundel: * * * First-in-the-nation PFAS response program now permanent thanks to new law from Sen. Ingwersen On Wednesday, Sept. 24, a new law from Sen. Henry Ingwersen, D-Arundel, took effect. LD 130, "An Act to Establish the PFAS Response Program and to Modify the Fund to Address PFAS Contamination," formalizes the PFAS Response Program at the Maine Department of  more

USGS: New Low-Flow Estimation Methods Released for Massachusetts Streams
WASHINGTON, Sept. 25 (TNSLrpt) -- The U.S. Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation, Office of Water Resources, has published Scientific Investigations Report 2025-5082, titled 'Methods for Estimating Selected Low-Flow Statistics at Gaged and Ungaged Stream Sites in Massachusetts'. The report, authored by Gardner C. Bent, Elizabeth A. Ahearn, and Jenn H. Fair, outlines methods and regression equatio  more