(SOA) — For more than a year, we've been investigating what’s happening to family farms across the country and the growing concerns over toxic chemicals farmers say are contaminating their land, water ...

In May of 2014 there was a budge in the "sludge saga" in Upper Mt. Bethel was seemingly made when land owner Ron Angle agreed not to spread the human waste fertilizer. In May of 2014 there was a budge ...

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 ...

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On January 15, 2025, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published its “Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment for Perfluorooctanoic Acid (PFOA) and Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Prohibiting spreading of sludge and biosolids on land has gained traction with Oklahoma Senate members voting 42-4 in favor of ...

Molly Trembley, an environmental engineer with the state Department of Environmental Conservation delivers a presentation on Dec. 4, 2024 to the Steuben County Legislature's Agriculture, Industry and ...

(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).

America’s farmland is a dumping ground. Industrial food waste and sewage sludge are being spread on millions of acres nationwide. Some call it free fertilizer, rich in nutrients. Others say the ...

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 ...

Earlier this year, a proposal from the New Hampshire House sought to pause the practice of applying PFAS-containing sewage sludge to farmland in New Hampshire. But over the course of ...

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is struggling to regulate the land application of industrial food waste as permit applications pile up and concerned residents demand stricter controls.