Rules meant to keep sewage sludge from running off farm fields and poisoning Ohio streams were put on hold after treatment-plant and sewage-company officials complained. Ohio Environmental Protection ...

Harry Locker, laboratory director at the Endyne Inc. lab in Williston, with water samples to be tested for the presence of metals on Jan. 5. Vermont has new rules that require monitoring for toxic ...

New farm regulations being aired this week by Maryland officials would ease first-ever limits on how, when and where the state’s farmers can spread animal manure and sewage sludge on their fields. The ...

If you’re a county resident ready to store sludge on your farm, you might as well forget it. As expected yesterday, county commissioners adopted a change in the county’s zoning ordinance that makes ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (WIAT) — Neighbors from ...

The State Water Control Board voted 6-0 today to overhaul rules governing the spreading of treated sewage sludge on farm fields. The sludge, largely human waste from localities' sewage plants, is ...

Neighbors say new Alabama rules governing the spreading of poultry sludge on farmland aren’t doing enough to reduce the smell of decaying chicken or the animals it attracts. The Decatur Daily finds ...

Sewage sludge. It is a murky by-product of Volusia County’s growth that is about to hit an environmental and political fan because of disposal problems. For decades, sludge has been pumped out of ...

Residents and environmental groups concerned about the use of industrial sludge and sewage waste as fertilizer in Alabama gathered Thursday to voice their objections to state officials. Many of the ...

The Senate on Thursday agreed to ease cleanup requirements for tanks holding millions of gallons of highly radioactive waste from Cold War-era bomb making. Senate critics said the change would leave ...