NYS Senator Pete Harckham and Assemblymember Dr. Anna Kelles, alongside environmental advocates, bipartisan elected leaders, ...

For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.” ...

Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

Imagine an endless sea of blood-red sludge, stretching over the land like a wound that refuses to heal. This isn’t a scene ...

Maine leads in PFAS laws to tackle the crisis, as outlined in "Poisoning the Well: How Forever Chemicals Contaminated America" ...

Wastewater treatment in Williamstown yields effluent (discharged to the Hoosic River, where there is a PFAS advisory on fish from the state Department of Health) and sludge — a concentrated byproduct.

Biosolids, also known as sewage sludge, move through a centrifuge during the final stages of processing. Josh Lutz displays ...

KIM WEATHERFORD, whose well water was contaminated by a neighbor’s toxic fertilizer. She lives 12 miles from the abandoned Galey & Lord textile mill in Society Hill, S.C., which gave its sludge to ...