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 ...

The federal government has been relatively quiet on the issue of PFAS contamination from sewage sludge spread on farmland.

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, ...

Anyone who has driven through New York’s abundant agricultural regions is aware of the agricultural practice of manure spreading. Done responsibly, ...

Vallerie Steele, of Fairview, is a member of a local residents group called SLUDGE, or Stop Land Use Damaging our Ground and Environment. She said an Arkansas company, Denali Water Solutions, has ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Burning eyes, burning lungs, skin rashes and other symptoms of illness have been found in a study of residents living near land fertilized with Class B biosolids, a byproduct of the human waste ...

Disposal of sewage sludge by application to agricultural and other land is widely practised and is presumed to be environmentally beneficial, but we have found high concentrations of an ...

(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 ...

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 ...