McKee said he will stand 'shoulder to shoulder' with North Kingstown if they oppose the plant.

The first topic of study authorized by the Rhode Island General Assembly this year: sludge. The House of Representatives ...

North Florida flat, rural cattle pastures — longtime dumping grounds of South Florida’s sewage sludge — will close their ...

Virginia’s governor signed a law and Maryland’s legislature passed a bill that set similar PFAS limits on biosolids. The ...

The first thing you notice is the stench. “It’s not going to smell like your husband’s farts,” says Myra Dotson. “It smells like fetid, festering meat.” A former UNC research assistant and current ...

The Biden administration warned of “forever chemicals” exposure via farm fertilizer. The lack of federal action has spawned a patchwork of state efforts. Six months after EPA warned about “forever ...

Scientists searching for air pollution clues stumbled onto something unexpected: toxic MCCPs drifting through the air for the ...

Syracuse, N.Y. – Onondaga County and the company that built the troubled sewage sludge dryer have settled a lawsuit that ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 27, 2025) With the confluence of science and law, the spotlight is on sewage sludge fertilizer and its contaminants, including per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

Domes cover large clarifier tanks at the WLSSD sewage treatment plant in 2018. In the tanks, clumps of bacteria settle out of the water as sludge. Most of the bacteria are returned to an earlier stage ...