Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there's a major blind spot when it comes to potential contaminants. Fertilizers ...

North Carolina farms use treated sewage sludge as fertilizer, but concerns over PFAs contamination are growing. With few disposal alternatives, regulators and farmers face tough choices.

Farmers across Washington already spread thousands of tons of fertilizer from human waste on their crops each year, but there ...

COMBINED LOCKS, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — Materials from the McKinley Paper mill in Combined Locks have been spilling into the Fox ...

Citizens who live near the city’s two waste water treatment plants, which treat Lexington’s sewage, have been complaining of ...

It’s very visible in various areas as it coagulates together,” said Heidi Schmitt Marquez the DNR “This is an ongoing ...

When cities and towns treat sewage, they separate the liquids from the solids and treat the liquid. The solids need to be disposed of and can make a nutrient-rich sludge often spread on farm fields.

Over the last few months, an area encompassing parts of Webb City, Carterville, and the Heritage Acres area outside those ...

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 ...

The proposal to bond funding for grants to help local sewer districts tackle the statewide sludge-disposal problem needs ...

Merced’s Wastewater Treatment Plant plays a vital role in protecting the environment as well as humans as treated water and ...

High levels of toxic PFAS, or forever chemicals, were accumulating in sewage sludge used as fertilizer on U.S. farmland.