A product used on farms across New York, produced at a facility in Chateaugay, was nearly banned for use on agricultural land ...

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill funding a study of the "forever chemical" PFAS in agricultural fields fertilized with ...

A product used on farms across New York, produced at a facility in Chateaugay, was nearly banned for use on agricultural land in the state legislature this year. Known to some as biosolids and others ...

"This issue should and could have been sorted out years ago." Advocates demand action on 'sewage sludge' issue on farmlands: ...

A bill that would have put a five-year moratorium on the use of sewage sludge on farmland did not pass the New York state ...

Last week, the town of Cameron in Steuben County became the second in the state to ban the practice of landspreading using sewage sludge, or biosolids. The town adopted the law at its monthly board ...

In the first hour of "Environmental Connections" on June 27, 2025, our guests discuss a recently failed Senate bill that would have banned the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer on New York farmland.

Oregon lawmakers approve funding for a study on PFAS contamination in agricultural fields fertilized with treated sewage sludge. The $800,000 study will examine PFAS levels in biosolids, soil, and ...

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 ...

They are often found in wastewater and as a result, can end up in biosolid fertilizer, also called sewage sludge, which is created when liquid is removed from wastewater in a treatment plant.

" [The sewage sludge is draining] down the gutter along the road, and runs down into the creek," Green said. The state DEP tells us it has not tested agriculture fields for PFAS.