Renewable energy company Green Development is proposing a new sludge processing plant in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The facility would use a high-heat process called pyrolysis to turn wastewater ...

SHAUN. YEAH, THAT’S RIGHT, THEY DID. HUNDREDS OF PEOPLE ARE AGAINST THIS BUILDING GETTING TURNED INTO A FISH AND MEAT COMPANY. AND MANY OF THOSE PEOPLE LIVE JUST FEET AWAY. MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THE ...

Galey and Lord, a now abandoned textile plant in eastern South Carolina, sent waste sludge from its manufacturing process to farms for use as fertilizer. The sludge later was found to be polluted with ...

Dried sludge at Greater Augusta Utilities District's wastewater treatment plant in 2023. Sewage sludge was once spread on Maine farms as fertilizer but is now sent to landfills because it caused PFAS ...

Some companies haul industrial sludge in huge tankers to South Carolina for use as a fertilizer on agricultural fields. There are concerns about the environmental impacts, even though supporters of ...

Cecilia Williams lives across a dusty lane from a farm that, for years, used waste sludge provided by a textile plant to fertilize crops. Then in 2019, government agencies discovered that the land ...