Lawmakers talk trash, forever chemicals while touring Maine’s biggest waste facilities

Lawmakers talk trash, forever chemicals while touring Maine’s biggest waste facilities

Maine legislators, advocates and curious residents tour the Eagle Point Energy Center in Orrington, a waste-to-energy facility that can use solid waste to generate up to 25 megawatts of electricity. (Photo by AnnMarie Hilton/ Maine Morning Star)A group of lawmakers, lobbyists, advocates and interested members of the public made a pilgrimage to three of Maine’s waste facilities Wednesday to see for themselves how the state is handling the roughly…