Maine lawsuits have added to the thousands nationwide against 3M, DuPont and 18 more companies that made PFAS or sold ...

Community members are concerned biosolids are being stored on the ground and washing into the river. Documents show the plant stopped processing the material onsite months ago.

For decades, farmers across America have been encouraged by the federal government and state officials to spread municipal ...

Opinion: Maryland lawmakers know of the danger of forever chemicals such as PFAS. Now they need to move past temporary fixes ...

Using sewage sludge – one of two end products from any wastewater treatment plant (the other is effluent) – as fertilizer on food crops is a hotly debated food safety issue, but only among a very ...

Septicity occurs in sewage or sludge when the micro-organisms have utilised all the dissolved oxygen (DO) and any nitrates (or nitrites) that may be present. When anaerobic conditions have developed, ...

A cluster of bills moving through the General Assembly would begin regulating PFAS contamination in sewage sludge spread on farmland, requiring testing and disclosure that environmental advocates say ...

Chemical and heat treatment of sewage sludge can recover phosphorus in a process that could help address the problem of diminishing supplies of phosphorus ores. Chemical and heat treatment of sewage ...