The clash was probably predictable. Take a more than 125-year-old, 122-acre farm increasingly isolated among new Columbus area homes and subdivisions, including a country club and a metro park. Add in ...

In theory, taking treated human waste and using it as fertilizer is a resourceful way to deal with the nearly 300 million tons of solid waste created in the United States every year. In the U.S., ...

The companion bills sent to the governor last week set limits on the presence of PFOA and PFOS in biosolids. Land application ...

Biosolids are treated waste solids generated from sewage sludge that have been processed so that they can be applied to land as a fertilizer. Advocates of biosolid use point to its ability to enrich ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Sewage being treated at the San Antonio Water System's Steven M. Clouse Water Recycling Center in San Antonio on Aug. 23, 2024.

Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were fertilized with PFAS-laced sewage sludge, the EPA reported this week. The ...

This month, for the 2024 growing season, the Nazareth Borough Municipal Authority had hoped to begin spreading sewage sludge called biosolids as fertilizer on a Plainfield Township farm it purchased ...

Environmental group Save Carbon County is hoping to raise awareness about the use of sewer sludge, known as biosolids, as fertilizer. "We personally feel that sewage sludge does not belong on farm ...

Antidepressants and other psychoactive drugs are designed to affect the human brain. But after they enter the water system in ...

JOHNSON COUNTY — Tony Coleman recognizes the signs all too well. A cow drools strings of saliva. Then it starts to limp, each step slower. Then it grows stiff. Then it’s quick. There’s nothing to be ...