A new report is highlighting the potential health risks of using sewage sludge as farmland fertilizer. According to the Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Water is now monitoring the EPA report that found ...

The state tapped its PFAS relief fund to spend $333,000 to buy a Palermo hay field where sewage sludge was once spread as ...

Watermen are asking state agencies to pause the practice of using sewage sludge as fertilizer. They worry that toxic “forever ...

Johnson County is seeking federal assistance, saying its farmland has become dangerously contaminated with “forever chemicals” from the use of fertilizer made from sewage sludge. By Hiroko ...

Sludge generated by Charlotte Water plants is recycled on more than 17,000 acres of private farmland in North and South Carolina.

Across North Carolina, treated sewage sludge—known as biosolids—is spread on farmland as fertilizer. But growing concerns over PFAS contamination have farmers, utilities, and regulators ...

They believe those issues are connected to biosolids fertilizer, made from Fort Worth’s sewage sludge, that was applied to nearby farmland. Now, commissioners say the 200,000-resident county ...

In doing so, they join environmental groups nationwide. Those groups have traced the sludge to its source, finding PFAS in the fertilizer many times what the EPA has said could be harmful to humans.

Fertilizers made from human waste are fairly common across the country. Depending on who you ask, they're called "biosolids" or "sludge," and they can be seen as a frontier of the agricultural ...