“The MWRD is pleased that the U.S. EPA did not find a risk to the general public or the general food supply from the land application of biosolids,” the district said in a statement, using an industry ...

The New York Farm Bureau drastically updated its policy position on the practice of landspreading biosolids, which is used as ...

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 ...

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 ...

Maine was the first state in the U.S. to ban the use of industrial and municipal sewage sludge as fertilizer, but since then Vermont is reportedly considering a similar ban and Massachusetts has ...

Cows with high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances or PFAS at a farm in Maine. (Adam Glanzman/Bloomberg) Eight years ago, Maine uncovered the edge of a vast agricultural problem when PFAS ...

Prohibiting spreading of sludge and biosolids on land has gained traction with Oklahoma Senate members voting 42-4 in favor of Senate Bill 3, which phases out its use. State Senators Avery Frix, ...

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.

Most people don’t like to think about what happens to human waste once it’s flushed away but for Bryan Clor and others working on the receiving end at wastewater treatment plants (WWTP) it’s a ...