Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were fertilized with PFAS-laced sewage sludge, the EPA reported this week. The ...

Oklahoma lawmakers gathered at the state Capitol to discuss the controversial use of biosolids as fertilizer, weighing ...

Sludge and septage are spread across around half a million acres statewide, but most of it has never been tested for PFAS.

This month, for the 2024 growing season, the Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority had hoped to begin spreading sewage sludge called biosolids as fertilizer on a Plainfield Township farm it purchased ...

Environmental group Save Carbon County is hoping to raise awareness about the use of sewer sludge, known as biosolids, as fertilizer. "We personally feel that sewage sludge does not belong on farm ...

UTICA — About 45 minutes southwest of Jackson, sits the small, sleepy town of Utica. With just under 800 residents according to the 2021 census, it falls on the edge of Hinds County, near the Copiah ...

Farmers nationwide often use biosolids — human waste that has been treated by wastewater facilities — as a cheaper, readily ...

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The Environment Protection Agency released a report that finds chemicals in sewage sludge fertilizer can cause cancer. People at risk are those who eat or drink goods that contain these harmful ...

Sewer water is filtered through the final clarifiers before it's chlorinated and pumped back into Lake Ontario. The Town of Webster Sewer Department is upgrading its wastewater treatment plant to ...

New Scotland Town Supervisor and eighth-generation dairy farmer Douglas LaGrange speaks before County Executive Daniel P. McCoy, left, signs an executive order placing a moratorium on the use of ...

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