ALCOSAN, the Allegheny County Sanitary Authority, is spending over $2 billion for their Clean Water Plan to address the ...

Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals ...

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.

FILE - Water flows down the Sandusky River between farms, Aug. 26, 2024, in Fremont, Ohio. Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the ...

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

Johnson County commissioners have issued a disaster declaration after tests found forever chemicals in soil, water and animal ...

A new EPA report warns that PFAS in biosolids may contaminate water and food. In NC, past use as fertilizer threatens ...

Public wastewater systems throughout the state, including those in Salem and Eugene, offer biosolids to farmers to fertilize fields.

“When it comes to the dry skin, it’s really a matter of that top barrier that’s not holding onto the moisture as well,” said Dr. Jennifer Stein, a dermatologist at NYU Langone Healt ...

Iowa’s farmlands are hotbeds for greenhouse gases, with nitrous oxide accounting for 59% of agricultural emissions in 2022.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a warning that two types of PFAS in sewage sludge fertilizer — commonly used by growers and supported by the EPA — may be a human health risk. Though ...