The Missouri Department of Natural Resources is struggling to regulate the land application of industrial food waste as permit applications pile up and concerned residents demand stricter controls.

FAIRVIEW, Mo. — Residents around Fairview are angry about the odor and have fears about the risks stemming from a waste sludge product applied to land around their homes. About 200 of them gathered ...

Molly Trembley, an environmental engineer with the state Department of Environmental Conservation delivers a presentation on Dec. 4, 2024 to the Steuben County Legislature's Agriculture, Industry and ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 22, 2014) The Town Board in Wheatfield, New York unanimously voted last month to amend its biosolids law to ban any application of sewage sludge and other similar materials ...

Nov. 13—The company that has been cited in Newton and McDonald counties for overapplication of sludge on farm fields and for problems with storage lagoons in Southwest Missouri has been fined by the ...

UTICA — About 45 minutes southwest of Jackson, sits the small, sleepy town of Utica. With just under 800 residents according to the 2021 census, it falls on the edge of Hinds County, near the Copiah ...

Land application is a desirable method of returning "biosolids" to the land. Biosolids, also known as sewage sludge, consist primarily of liquid organic material produced by wastewater treatment. When ...

Prohibiting spreading of sludge and biosolids on land has gained traction with Oklahoma Senate members voting 42-4 in favor of Senate Bill 3, which phases out its use. State Senators Avery Frix, ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A circuit judge in Cole County recently closed a legal loophole that could have allowed wastewater processing companies to restart land application in Southwest Missouri with ...

I have followed The Republic reporting about the permit application for the wastewater treatment sludge (biosolids) storage structure that was submitted by Biocycle. I am surprised no one has ...