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

The findings are particularly relevant for northeast Illinois, where more than 777,000 tons of sludge from Chicago and Cook ...

Other organizations, including Consumer Reports, said they have found gaps in government testing and reported that their own ...

Chemicals known as PFOA and PFOS that can be found in sewage sludge used as fertilizer may pose a risk to human health, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says.

In a recent report, the Environmental Protection Agency says “forever chemicals” are present in sewage sludge.

Sewage sludge has been used as fertilizer for many ... monitor the food supply to protect people from exposure to forever chemicals.

Washington, DC – On Tuesday, EPA released a long-awaited draft report demonstrating that toxic "forever chemicals" in sewage ...

modeled scenarios where sewage sludge containing as little as 1 part per billion of PFOA or PFOS — two of the most widely used forever chemicals — was spread on land. In certain scenarios ...