The companion bills sent to the governor last week set limits on the presence of PFOA and PFOS in biosolids. Land application of the sludge would be banned above a certain level beginning in mid-2027.

The clash was probably predictable. Take a more than 125-year-old, 122-acre farm increasingly isolated among new Columbus area homes and subdivisions, including a country club and a metro park. Add in ...

If an immediate ban on their use is impossible to achieve, then this compromise legislation is an important step forward.

BALTIMORE, Maryland, February 23, 2024 (ENS) – A product liability lawsuit has been filed against a major manufacturer of biosolids-based fertilizer produced from sewage sludge. The lawsuit seeks ...

In theory, taking treated human waste and using it as fertilizer is a resourceful way to deal with the nearly 300 million tons of solid waste created in the United States every year. In the U.S., ...

Biosolids — a type of treated sewage byproduct from wastewater treatment plants — are used as a nutrient-rich fertilizer on farms across the Midwest. But a group of toxic “forever chemicals” are ...

After multiple debates and meetings between stakeholders, a compromise has been reached on how Virginia can begin to monitor the presence of “forever chemicals,” in biosolids that are used as ...

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 ...

Biosolids are treated waste solids generated from sewage sludge that have been processed so that they can be applied to land as a fertilizer. Advocates of biosolid use point to its ability to enrich ...

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 ...

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

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