For decades, the biosolids industry has recycled human and industrial waste into organic fertilizer for large-scale agricultural applications. But concerns are mounting as evidence grows that these ...
Proposed legislation on chemical contamination does not consider what might be exorbitant future costs for treatment and ...
A recent report from the EPA outlines the potential human and environmental risks from PFAS chemical found in sewage sludge.
President Donald Trump's administration is working to undo a regulatory crackdown by his predecessor on PFAS pollution.
It is now widely recognized that the use of biosolids on farms, even at low levels, could pose health risks for humans due to ...
With the stroke of a pen, McCoy became the latest in a line of public officials from across the country to acknowledge that, while biosolids have been used to fertilize farms for years, recent researc ...
"Ultimately, those paying the price for all of this industrial contamination are farmers and the general public." Expert ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment on January 14, 2025, for ...
When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have ...
The Trump administration has scrapped a plan that would have limited how much PFAS manufacturers can dump into the ...
Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental ...
There’s a new environmentally charged uproar in Brunswick, and potentially toxic wastewater sludge is right at the center of ...