Sludge Newsroom and Press Releases
Press Releases
August 10, 2010
Independent Scientific Testing Finds Toxic Contaminants in San Francisco's Free 'Organic Biosolids Compost', Food Rights Network
March 3, 2010
Organic Consumers Association Consumer Warning on Sludge
September 23, 2009
Press Release: The Center for Food Safety Petitions San Francisco Mayor to Stop Giving Away Poison Compost to Public
September 11, 2008
Press Release: Sludge Victims Speak At Senate Oversight Briefing Investigating Epa Malfeasance On Sewage Sludge Disposal
Coalition of Food, Farm, Environmental and Labor Groups Urges Congress to Halt Dumping Of Sewage Sludge on Farmland
September 10, 2008
News Alert: Congress begins investigation into EPA malfeasance and the practice of land application of toxic sewage sludge
Before Congressional Oversight Briefing, Victims of Poisoning, Farmers, Food Safety and Environmental Advocates Speak out at Media Briefing (download pdf on this page)
April 17, 2008
Mikulski, Cummings Call for Investigation into Study that Spread Human, Industrial Waste in Baltimore Neighborhoods
April 15, 2008
EPA Sludge Tests a "Modern-Day Tuskegee Experiment"
Children in Poor Black Neighborhoods Potentially Imperiled by EPA Studies
April 1, 2008
Residents Concerned Sewage Sludge Toxic
December 17, 2007
Carlyle Group Sewer Sludge Business May Increase Health Risks to Communities