Ultimately the most popular title would be NASCAR Racing Online, with peak simultaneous usage of about 1,700 people.Īfter the success of Diablo's free online service in 1997, publishers began incorporating free online directly in their games. An immediate success, its initial flagship game was Duke Nukem 3D, and DarkSun also found a solid following. Entering partnerships with major game developers, they offered American gamers the first way to play their favorite games with other people across the country. Maine created a $60 million relief fund to help impacted farmers.TEN abandoned the dial-up model in 1996 in favor of a service that focused on providing low latency online modes for games. Many of these farmers have had to pull their products from market and cull contaminated herds. The sludge has since been linked to contaminated well water, fields, crops and milk in dairy herds that grazed on sludge-fertilized lands. Lawmakers also banned sludge spreading, a decades-old practice of recycling state-licensed municipal sludge from wastewater treatment plants into fertilizer to enrich Maine farmlands, which is believed to be the primary source of PFAS contamination in at least three dozen Maine communities. Maine has been out in front on many PFAS issues, setting drinking water standards that are stricter than federal ones and attempting to document the extent of contamination by mounting a statewide review of about 700 farms where state-licensed sludge likely to be high in PFAS has been spread.Įarlier this year, Maine lawmakers voted to ban the sale, distribution and use of any pesticides that contain PFAS, which have been been detected at high levels in Maine farming communities.
Department of Agriculture rural development grants to individuals, nonprofits and local governments for water quality testing and the purchase and installation of point-of-use or point-of-entry water quality improvement systems. "The Healthy H2O Act will bring much needed resources to our rural communities and have a direct impact on the health of our families throughout the state and beyond," House said.
to reliably access clean and safe drinking water," said Jason House, a Maine resident who is president-elect of the National Ground Water Association. "Rural communities in Maine, and throughout the country, have long struggled to receive the necessary support from D.C. This can delay identification of and response to health threats posed by contaminants. Public water systems treat water before distributing it to consumers, but 43 million households in mostly rural communities rely exclusively on wells fed by groundwater, which is typically untested. They have been linked to cancer, kidney malfunction, immune system suppression and pre-eclampsia in pregnant women. PFAS, per- and polyflouroalkyl substances, are a class of over 4,000 manmade chemicals used since the 1950s in industrial and household products like waterproof clothing, non-stick cookware and firefighting foam. The Healthy H2O Act covers a number of long-known contaminants, from lead to arsenic, but also emerging chemical threats such as so-called forever chemicals, or PFAS, found in groundwater around farms where sludge has been spread as fertilizer since the 1970s. "The Healthy H2O Act will make testing and treatment technology more accessible so we can address contaminants in our water, and so our communities can be protected against these harmful chemicals," Pingree said in a written statement. Maine is "ahead of the curve" on testing, she said, but it's likely the rest of the nation is facing the same problem: "They just doesn't know it yet."
Maine is regularly finding the forever chemicals in more areas of the state and in everything from wells to milk, deer meat and chicken eggs, said Pingree, who represents Maine's 1st District. David Rouzer, R-N.C., at the same time a companion bill was introduced in the Senate by Sen. Chellie Pingree, D-Maine, and North Carolina Rep. The Healthy H2O Act was introduced Thursday in the House by Rep. 9-Congress is considering new legislation to provide grants for testing and filtration systems to remove so-called forever chemicals and other contaminants from drinking water supplies in rural areas.
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