After half a century living alongside an unidentified toxic landfill, residents of Fort Myers’ South Street neighborhood will see a stormwater detention feature, landscaped for better visuals, on the ...

WHAT WE KNOW: Colona is considering either hiring its own employee to run the sewer treatment plant or contracting with the city of Moline to operate the plant. WHAT'S NEW: In the past week, the ...

DEVECSER, Hungary - Hungary declared a state of emergency in three counties Tuesday after a flood of toxic red sludge from an alumina plant engulfed several towns and burned people through their ...

LAPEER (AP) – For more than 20 years, the Michigan town of Lapeer sent leftover sludge from its sewage treatment plant to area farms, supplying them with high-quality, free fertilizer while avoiding ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge spread on pasture as fertilizer pose a risk to people who regularly consume milk, beef and other products from those farms, in some cases raising cancer risk ...

Covering the cost of blood tests for more than 600 households in areas where farms used sludge to fertilize their fields ...

Biosolids from sewage are processed into fertilizer at a wastewater treatment facility. A group of wastewater treatment plants will intervene in a lawsuit over "forever chemicals" in biosolids used as ...

Sewage sludge formed during their mechanical, biological, and physicochemical treatment refers to difficult-to-filter colloidal suspensions, sometimes containing specific inclusions in the form of ...

The company behind an application to dump sludge on multiple sites in King William County has requested a delay in the processing of its permit as citizens and environmentalists push for a public ...

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