The Biden administration warned of "forever chemicals" exposure via farm fertilizer. The lack of federal action has spawned a ...

Oregon lawmakers have passed a bill funding a study of the "forever chemical" PFAS in agricultural fields fertilized with sewage sludge.

When researchers completed a national study of hazardous forever chemicals recently, they found that a South Carolina river ...

More than two-thirds of the sewage sludge produced in Florida ends up on lands in the St. Johns River Basin. This disparity ...

Biosolids aren't tested for forever chemicals before being used as fertilizer in Florida. Testing requirements would help ...

They are often found in wastewater and as a result, can end up in biosolid fertilizer, also called sewage sludge, which is created when liquid is removed from wastewater in a treatment plant.

There is increasing concern that the biosolids could be contaminated with PFAS, or per- and poly-fluorinated substances, a family of chemicals used since the 1940s for their heat-, moisture ...

Oregon lawmakers approve funding for a study on PFAS contamination in agricultural fields fertilized with treated sewage sludge. The $800,000 study will examine PFAS levels in biosolids, soil, and ...