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For about 20 years, Dr. Michael Klag has used a fertilizer made from Milwaukee municipal sludge on azaleas and yew shrubs at his suburban Baltimore home. And Klag, dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, says he's never had any question about its safety.
Every day Larry Slattery goes to work, the Environmental Protection Agency asks him to do the impossible.
Three more lawmakers are seeking investigations of federally funded research in poor, black neighborhoods that resulted in sewage sludge being spread on several families' lawns in attempt to determine whether it could combat lead poisoning in children.
It was a farm idea with a big payoff and supposedly no downside: ridding lakes and rivers of raw sewage and industrial pollution by converting it all into a free, nutrient-rich fertilizer. Then last week, a federal judge ordered the Agriculture Department to compensate a farmer whose land was poisoned by sludge from the waste treatment plant here. His cows had died by the hundreds.
Rubber tyres, the kind that lie at the bottom of rivers and at the back of junkyards the world over, could be ideal water filters says an environmental engineer at Penn State university in the US.
EPA failed to disclose coal ash-related health risksPeople who live near near sites used to store ash or sludge from coal-fired power plants have a one in 50 chance of developing cancer, according to a just released government report kept from the public for seven years by the Bush Administration.
Water Testing Results Published from Tennessee Ash SpillThe small non-profit environment justice group, United Mountain Defense, has been doing an amazing amount of work around the Tennessee Coal Ash Disaster and has published concrete water testing data. Which is more than TVA can say!
TVA says it will clean up massive Tennessee sludge spillThe head of the largest public power company in the nation has pledged to clean up the massive spill that has dumped more than a billion gallons of coal waste in central Tennessee.
BP gets break on dumping in Lake MichiganThe massive BP oil refinery in Whiting, Ind., is planning to dump significantly more ammonia and industrial sludge into Lake Michigan, running counter to years of efforts to clean up the Great Lakes.
The Great Flood: The Coal Industry Drops Thick Black Piss Over the Hills of KentuckyIn October 2000, there was a flood in Inez, Kentucky. The EPA called it the worst environmental catastrophe in the history of the eastern United States. It was way worse than the 1989 Exxon Valdez spill.
Why You Don't Need "Antibacterial" SoapIf you choose "antibacterial" products because you trust them to kill germs, you might want to reconsider. According to recent studies, antiseptic ingredients added to numerous products are not effective and may actually be harmful.
Sludge Killing Ivory Coast ResidentsIf you want to know some of the dark sides of globalization, look no further than the Ivory Coast.
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