What is it about Florida’s rivers that makes us humans want to spoil them? The Kissimmee River worked perfectly for centuries ...

Investigation uncovers decades of toxic sludge seeping into America's food chain: 'A steep price in future contamination of food and water' first appeared on The Cool Down.

Climate Forward How to Know if Toxic Sewage Sludge Has Been Used in Your Community Fertilizer containing potentially unsafe levels of “forever chemicals” has been used around the country.

U.K. environmentalists are calling for urgent government regulation of "sewage sludge" on farmland. They have warned that outdated rules are allowing toxic chemicals and microplastics to be spread ...

Floodwaters test positive for e-coli, industrial chemicals. June 24, 2007 — -- As floodwaters begin to recede in some of the most devastated parts of the Midwest, residents there are shifting ...

In northeast Illinois, more than 777,000 tons of sludge from Chicago and Cook County have been spread on farmland — in many cases near residential areas.

Even as PFAS has turned up in wastewater, the government has continued to promote the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. And while Donald J. Trump’s election raises the prospect that PFAS ...

A cleanup in 2013 removed 42,000 tons of paint sludge and toxic waste from the Ramapo Well Field area. A second phase of the Torne Valley cleanup removed another 55,000 tons of toxic waste by 2015.