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October 11, 2010
News
The system Columbus water officials use to measure atrazine levels begins with an old, battered plastic bottle wrapped in duct tape and tied to a rope.
October 7, 2010
News
Every year nearly 30 billion gallons of wastewater filled with untreated sewage and pollution overflows into New York City's waterways. Last week New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the Department of Environmental Protection unveiled a proposal...
September 13, 2010
News
People walking their dogs are encouraged to collect the feces, place them into the supplied biodegradable doggie bags and drop them into the digester feeding tube. They then turn a hand crank to stir the mixture of excrement and anaerobic bacteria...
September 13, 2010
News
Increasing numbers of consumers are turning to organic methods to maintain their lawns, according to a 2008 survey by the National Gardening Association.
August 30, 2010
Scientific Study
New research shows that the drugs and contaminants that often contaminant sewage sludge that is used as fertilizer can be taken up by the plants grown in fertilized fields and gardens. Also called 'biosolids' these fertilizers are regularly...
August 26, 2010
News
The residents of Rio Vista could smell trouble....
August 25, 2010
News
Back in 1999 Joe Harding told the Washington Post, "Everything was so safe, so riskless [at the Paducah enriched uranium gaseous diffusion plant] We know the truth, I can feel it in my body." Harding is no longer alive; he's one of the workers...
August 9, 2010
News
Silver nanoparticles, used for their potent antimicrobial properties in hospitals and consumer products, may negatively impact plant growth as they make their way into the environment, according to a new study. Whereas it may not spell the end of...
August 18, 2010
News
San Francisco, activists claimed, was poisoning its residents by giving away “toxic sewage sludge,” a mixture of treated sewage and yard waste for use on home gardens that's a stew of all that goes down the city's drains and sewers.
August 7, 2010
Scientific Study
Independent tests of sewage sludge-derived compost from the Synagro CVC plant -- distributed free to gardeners since 2007 by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission in their "organic biosolids compost" giveaway program -- have found...
