Maine’s Solar Incentive Helps Farms Spoiled by Forever Chemicals

Fred Stone, a Maine farmer whose life and livelihood began to shatter from PFAS eight years ago, sees a ray of hope from the sun.

The third-generation dairy farmer signed a 30-year contract with Walden Renewables in June so his family’s 100-year-old property can farm solar energy.

This isn’t the solution Stone, 68, sought after “forever chemicals” in the farm’s soil precluded its use for livestock or crops.

“I’m very upset that this is what we had to resort to, but this was our only way out,” he said. “We haven’t had any income for a long, long time.”

Fred ...