What does the new EPA warning about PFAS-laden sludge in fertilizer mean for home gardeners? Here’s what you need to know.

Proposed legislation on chemical contamination does not consider what might be exorbitant future costs for treatment and ...

This is a public service announcement to any farmer who either has fertilized their crops with sewage sludge or is ...

Columnist Shannon Brennan writes that farm families in the Lynchburg area are at risk of getting sick from forever chemicals ...

For decades, the biosolids industry has recycled human and industrial waste into organic fertilizer for large-scale ...

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Farmers in Middle Georgia use free biosolids from the Macon Water Authority as fertilizer, but the EPA warns this practice ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi For the first time, the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday warned that “forever chemicals” present in sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can pose human health ...

The contaminated waste is at the root of recent concerns over the “forever chemicals” that have been found in fertilizer made from sewage sludge, which is a byproduct of wastewater treatment.

Chemicals found in sewage sludge that some farmers use to fertilize fields and pastures can pose a threat to human and animal health, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

The EPA said the findings of the report underscore the need to remove PFAS at the source, before the toxic chemicals would end up in the sewage sludge. Some ways to eliminate forever chemicals ...