Some scientists believe it threatens the food chain. Shocking new report reveals toxic 'Trojan horse' spreading unchecked: ...

Forever chemicals are linked to cancer and other diseases, and have been detected in sewage sludge incinerator exhaust.

Farmers often took the sludge without knowledge of its possible contamination. In 2006, an E.P.A. contractor offered him samples of municipal sewage sludge left over from earlier agency testing.

The former Fort Howard Paper Company first began using the site in the 1960s as an “environmentally sound repository for the fly ash and wastewater treatment sludge” from its Fort Howard mill, today’s ...

In 2022, it dumped 36 truck loads — or 165,000 gallons — of sludge onto only five acres a day ahead of heavy rains. The waste flowed onto neighboring property and into a waterway.

This is a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership to take Pasco County's sewage sludge and make it into commercial ...