Sludge is a rising threat to China’s environment. As the number of wastewater treatment plants in the country has increased in response to water pollution, so has the volume of the resulting byproduct ...

Wastewater treatment plants in the US may discharge enough “forever chemicals” to raise concentrations in drinking water above the safe limit for millions of people ...

Levels of PFAS in sewage sludge used as fertilizer can pose risks that sometimes exceed safety thresholds “by several orders ...

But DHEC has reason to believe agricultural fields relying on sludge “could contain PFAS’’ from wastewater treatment plants, one agency report says. From the fields, the water-loving ...

DHEC conceded in a 2020 drinking water strategy report that sites taking sludge from treatment plants “could contain PFAS.’’ Bob Guild, one of the state’s most experienced environmental ...