Wastewater from humans in a single year could fill more than 100 million Olympic-size swimming pools, according to researchers from Canada and the Netherlands (Earth Syst. Sci. Data 2021, DOI: 10. ...

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

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 ...

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) ...

In certain scenarios, the assessment found, even a single application of sewage sludge could result in human health risks surpassing EPA's cancer risk level of 1 in 100,000, meaning that for every ...

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

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 ...

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

Testing revealed that biosolids, or treated sewage sludge commonly used as fertilizer, are a major source of PFAS pollution ...

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 ...

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