The Biden administration warned of "forever chemicals" exposure via farm fertilizer. The lack of federal action has spawned a ...

Spreading sewage sludge, or bio-solids, onto fields is common practice in many parts of the world (Credit: RJ Sangosti/The Denver Post/Getty Images) ...

Researchers at the Harbin Institute of Technology and the Northeast Agricultural University took waste activated sludge—made from raw sewage that had been treated with oxygen to stabilize its ...

Lawmakers in Albany say sewage sludge, or waste collected in homes and factories that's used as a fertilizer alternative, could permanently ruin New York farmland and harm human health.

State lawmakers nearly passed legislation that would have placed a five-year moratorium on the use of biosolids, which are ...

Biosolids, the sludge left over from wastewater treatment facilities, require special disposal. With the improvements made for sewage sludge digestion, the amount of organic material available in the ...

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 ...

SIAAP (Greater Paris Sanitation Authority) and SUEZ have officially inaugurated a new state-of-the-art biogas production unit ...

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

Environmental advocates are calling for a ban the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. An EPA draft report found that there may be health risks associated with exposure to PFAS "forever chemicals ...

Fertilizers that contain treated sewage tainted with toxic PFAS chemicals can be spread on farmland and pose a health risk to people who consume milk, eggs and beef, the agency says.

St. Johns Riverkeeper is a member of that national group and participated in an earlier phase of the study. Biosolids, also ...