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 ...

Annabelle Pan, a research scientist in Jordan Peccia's lab at Yale University, examines sludge samples. Credit: Steven Geringer/Yale University Photo As scientists measure the prevalence of COVID-19 ...

Between March 19 and June 30, a group of scientists tested waste that had previously been used to detect COVID-19, looking for drugs and chemicals. The researchers found significant increases in three ...

Maine was the first state in the nation to ban the use of sludge as a fertilizer. Now, the Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association plans to take the EPA to court over farmland lost to forever ...