Brevard County wants to stop farmers and ranchers from using too much sewage sludge as fertilizer, saying that the high phosphorous levels could trigger toxic algae blooms in our drinking water supply ...

In the summer of 1976, household trash, leftover sewage and dead fish washed up on the ocean beaches of New York and New Jersey. Pressure rose on New York City to quit dumping massive amounts of ...

The commission eventually tightened rules for using food processing waste or sewage sludge as fertilizer. “There’s no such thing as a food-grade fertilizer from a poultry plant,” said Julie Lay, an ...