(Beyond Pesticides, August 22, 2014) The Town Board in Wheatfield, New York unanimously voted last month to amend its biosolids law to ban any application of sewage sludge and other similar materials ...

A sign advertising a “biosolids land application” at a property on Route 254 in Augusta County caught the attention of an AFP reader last week. As with that one, the word “application” on the sign ...

A reader who regularly drives Route 254 from Staunton to Waynesboro noticed a sign a couple of months ago advertising a something called a “biosolids land application” at a farm near the highway’s ...

Form over substance continues to obscure the substantive issue presented in the case of the City of Los Angeles (City) vs. Kern County (County). At its core, the dispute involves the land application ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nov. 13—The company that has been cited in Newton and McDonald counties for overapplication of sludge on farm fields and for ...

Land application of treated sewage sludge (often referred to as biosolids) for soil-amendment and land-reclamation purposes has increased over the past decade as a result of the ban on ocean dumping ...

As the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), Congress, and state regulatory agencies continue to push forward with per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (“PFAS”) regulations, the Maine ...

Use of biosolids (treated municipal sewage sludge) on crops is a common practice because biosolids are a rich source of plant nutrients and organic matter. However, these biosolids can contain ...

Burning eyes, burning lungs, skin rashes and other symptoms of illness have been found in a study of residents living near land fertilized with Class B biosolids, a byproduct of the human waste ...

San Luis Obispo County’s virtual ban on using sewage sludge as fertilizer for food crops will stay in place for two more years, and work on crafting a new sludge ordinance has been halted. After a ...

A state study found PFAS in sewage sludge, soil and water across North Carolina. Despite widespread use on farmland, there ...