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

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its Draft Sewage Sludge Risk Assessment on January 14, 2025, for ...

Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby neighbors to toxic “forever” chemic ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental ...

Last week, there was significant news in the PFAS realm when the EPA announced its long-awaited draft risk assessment with ...

Environmental advocates are calling for a ban the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. An EPA draft report found that there ...

Moreover, the study finds that amounts of PFAS in the sludge can exceed the EPA’s acceptable threshold “sometimes by several orders of magnitude.” “This draft assessment provides important ...

The Trump administration has scrapped a plan that would have limited how much PFAS manufacturers can dump into the ...

Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were ...

This sludge—which is sometimes applied to farmland as fertilizer—can contain high levels of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the EPA concluded in its review.

Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage ...

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