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Carbon Sequestration: What's the Point?
In addition to being pure fiction, "clean coal" is a really dumb idea.
Between 1986 and 1999 foodborne illnesses increased from 2 million to 76 million cases annually. During that time frame, EPA claims spreading disease contaminated sludge biological solids (biosolids) on farms, parks, school grounds, as well as home gardens and lawns as a fertilizer could not have been a factor in the increase of health damages and death. They hide behind the savings clause -- there was no "intent of causing actual or perceived harm." However, there was a Perception Management Program in place cover up the harm.
Richland, Washington - The outback of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation in eastern Washington State is called the T-Farm. It's a rolling expanse of high desert sloping toward the last untamed reaches of the Columbia River. The "T" stands for tanks-huge single-hulled containers buried some fifty feet beneath basalt volcanic rock and sand holding, the lethal detritus of Hanford's fifty-year run as the nation's H-bomb factory.
Minneapolis - Consumers should choose foods produced without sludge and avoid use of sewage sludge-based fertilizer products in home gardens, concludes a new guide by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
Minneapolis - Consumers should choose foods produced without sludge and avoid use of sewage sludge-based fertilizer products in home gardens, concludes a new guide by the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP).
Virginia officials inspected more than 42 percent of all farm fields where sewage sludge was spread as fertilizer in the first half of 2008, the first year the Department of Environmental Quality was responsible for overseeing farms' use of sludge.
That inspection percentage is a drastic change from a paltry state inspection record of the practice a few years ago. In 2004, sludge was applied more than 1,100 times, but state officials conducted only 19 inspections.
On April 14, 2008, the Associated Press broke a story about a sewage sludge study in Baltimore, Maryland, that banked on kids eating the sludge. The Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health defended its participation in the study in an opinion piece in the Baltimore Sun on April 28, 2008.
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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. http://www.commondreams.org/archive/wp-content/photos/0307_01.jpg
The woods off Horseshoe Road here in Middlesex County are still tainted by human intrusions from decades ago. They are the target of a Superfund project - a lengthy federal cleanup of a former chemical-processing plant that Mr. Spiegel, executive director of the Edison Wetlands Association, said was inadequately financed and too prolonged.
