Brunswick resident Sandra Carslick said she and her neighbors have been living in a “bad dream” for the five months since ...

Sewer sludge from wastewater treatment plants appears to expose farmers and nearby neighbors to toxic “forever” chemic ...

Last week, there was significant news in the PFAS realm when the EPA announced its long-awaited draft risk assessment with ...

Environmental advocates are calling for a ban the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. An EPA draft report found that there ...

The Trump administration has scrapped a plan that would have limited how much PFAS manufacturers can dump into the ...

Harmful chemicals in sewage sludge that is spread on pasture land as fertilizer are causing cancer, the Environmental ...

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders of magnitude,” the agency said. By Hiroko Tabuchi For the first ...

There’s a new environmentally charged uproar in Brunswick, and potentially toxic wastewater sludge is right at the center of ...

Farm families that consume milk, eggs and beef they raise themselves face an increased risk of cancer if their fields were ...

Moreover, the study finds that amounts of PFAS in the sludge can exceed the EPA’s acceptable threshold “sometimes by several orders of magnitude.” “This draft assessment provides important ...

Over the last decade, Maine has spent more than $100 million as it became a national leader in the fight against harmful forever chemicals, but dwindling funds will soon force state officials to make ...

This sludge—which is sometimes applied to farmland as fertilizer—can contain high levels of chemicals called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, the EPA concluded in its review.