When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover ...

How to understand the E.P.A.’s new warning about PFAS levels in sewage sludge. By Hiroko Tabuchi (Editors note: We are continuing to cover the Los Angeles fires. Scroll down for more on the latest.

Sewage sludge has been used as fertilizer for many years. Wastewater treatment plants produce millions of tons of it and tens of millions of acres of farmland have been allowed to use it ...

There’s a new environmentally charged uproar in Brunswick, and potentially toxic wastewater sludge is right at the center of ...

Sewage sludge has been used by some farmers for years. It is plentiful — wastewater treatment plants produce millions of tons of it — but the EPA said that less than 1% of fertilized acreage ...

Wastewater treatment plants do not remove PFAS; much of it ends up in the sludge, which is often recycled into fertilizer. The Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant, which manages sewage from 43 ...

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies, which represents wastewater treatment plants across the country, said the findings reinforced that sludge fertilizer was not a risk to the public ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. The risk is highest for people who regularly ...

Brunswick resident Sandra Carslick said she and her neighbors have been living in a “bad dream” for the five months since ...