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3 weeks ago

Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with 'forever chemicals' killed animals

" Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with “forever chemicals” poisoned their land and killed their livestock" was first published by The Texas Tribune, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media organization that informs Texans — and engages with them — about public policy, politics, government and statewide issues. “We shouldn’t have to wait.” Without federal regulations, some states have taken action, requiring …

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4 weeks ago

Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up

NL Times

The PFAS pollution in Dutch ports and rivers is so great that landfills for contaminated sludge are filling up much faster than expected, according to research by Trouw. Rijkswaterstaat warned that building new underwater landfills could easily take ten years. Since then, twice as much sludge has been entering the two Rijkswaterstaat landfills in the Ketelmeer on the Maasvlakte and …

Netherlands Water Pfas Landfills Rijkswaterstaat

1 month, 2 weeks ago

Trump's chief of staff pick worked as a tobacco lobbyist while running 2024 campaign

Raw Story

President-elect Donald Trump on Thursday selected Susie Wiles, a longtime GOP strategist who has spearheaded the Republican leader's campaign operations since 2021, to serve as White House chief of staff, saying in a statement that she helped "achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history." Mercury "lobbies for sugar cereal company Kellogg's, high fructose corn syrup sauce maker …

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1 month, 2 weeks ago

Shocking video shows bucket of black filth that cleaner extracted from just four seats on London Underground tube train

Daily Mail

A shocking video shows a bucket full of black sludge extracted from just four seats on the London Underground by a cleaner. Steven James - also known as Mr Carpet Clean - filmed himself power-washing the seats on a Northern Line train at Camden Town station. A bucket full of black sludge extracted from just four seats on the London …

London Train Seats James Clean Tube Underground

2 months ago

Big Oil dishes out record $54.2 million to boost GOP candidates: analysis

Raw Story

The investigative outlet Sludge reported Thursday that the fossil fuel industry has pumped a record sum this election cycle into a pair of super PACs dedicated to securing GOP control of the House and retaking the narrowly Democratic Senate next month. Citing Federal Election Commission filings made public earlier this week, Sludge noted that oil and gas giants such as …

Industry Oil Trump Election Million Big Oil Sludge

3 months, 1 week ago

'Obvious conflict of interest': Report reveals 50+ U.S. lawmakers hold military stocks

Raw Story

At least 50 U.S. lawmakers or members of their households are financially invested in companies that make military weapons and equipment—even as these firms "receive hundreds of billions of dollars annually from congressionally-crafted Pentagon appropriations legislation," a report published Thursday revealed. Sludge's David Moore analyzed 2023 financial disclosures and stock trades disclosed in other reports and found that "the total …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Wayanad landslide area could fit 13 football fields: ISRO assessment

India Today

More than 13 international football fields could have been constructed in the area which saw its land skidding down into the Iruvazhinjhi river – and ultimately killing more than 250 people in three villages of Kerala’s Wayanad this week. In a satellite data-based assessment, the Indian Space Research Organisation on Thursday put the aerial area of the landslide crown – …

India Wayanad River Landslide Mundakkai Isro Assessment

4 months, 3 weeks ago

Trump’s top campaign money bundler connected to Ohio’s largest public corruption scandal

Raw Story

FirstEnergy was the company behind the largest political bailout and bribery scandal in Ohio history, which funneled $61 million in dark money bribes to Ohio lawmakers in order to pass a $1.3 billion nuclear and coal bailout at the expense of every Ohio family that pays utility bills. This week, Sludge reported that Donald Trump’s top known campaign money bundler …

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6 months, 1 week ago

Seeing the world in a slushy pond

The Hindu

To saunter, says Thoreau, is to either rove idly in search of a holy land that one has no intention of reaching or to become so completely bereft of home that one is at home anywhere. On a dreary evening, wilfully bereft of my home, I sauntered to the edge of a nearby pond that I had no intention of …

Saunter

9 months, 1 week ago

Kerala govt deposits ₹335 crore in ring-fenced account for waste management projects

The Hindu

The Kerala government has deposited about ₹335 crore in a separate, ring-fenced account of the Department of Local Self-Governments towards setting up common sewage and faecal treatment plants to check pollution of the Vembanad and Ashtamudi lakes, among other projects. Implementing agency About ₹304 crore has been ring-fenced towards setting up sewage treatment plants by the Kochi Metro Rail Ltd, …

Treatment Projects Crore Kerala Govt Other Projects

11 months ago

Sludge compost is an increasing source of microplastics, researchers say

LA Times

A team of UCLA researchers has put a new spin on the 1970s rock classic “Dust in the Wind” — only this one is grimmer and grimier than the original hit by Kansas. “If you blow wind on soil with microplastics, you’d expect a similar amount of soil and microplastic to be present in the dust,” said Sanjay Mohanty, a …

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1 year, 3 months ago

Electricity self-sufficiency is the aim for sewage treatment plant

China Daily

The Beijing Drainage Group plans to achieve electricity self-sufficiency at one of its sewage treatment plants in the capital as it works toward carbon neutral operations, the State-owned company has announced. The plan has proved to be feasible following the long-term operation of a facility for disposing of sewage sludge in the company's Gaoantun sewage treatment plant in the capital's …

Electricity Company Facility Plant Sewage Sewage Sludge Sewage Treatment Plant

1 year, 3 months ago

Electricity self-sufficiency is the aim for sewage treatment plant

China Daily

The Beijing Drainage Group plans to achieve electricity self-sufficiency at one of its sewage treatment plants in the capital as it works toward carbon neutral operations, the State-owned company has announced. The plan has proved to be feasible following the long-term operation of a facility for disposing of sewage sludge in the company's Gaoantun sewage treatment plant in the capital's …

Electricity Company Facility Plant Sewage Sewage Sludge Sewage Treatment Plant

1 year, 4 months ago

Oops, I did it again: This Democratic congresswoman violated a federal law for a second time

Raw Story

A Democratic congresswoman from North Carolina with a history of more than 50 late stock disclosures appears to have violated a decade-old federal transparency and conflicts-of-interest law. RELATED ARTICLE: ‘Aren’t we a little more grown up than that?’: Ex-lawmaker rips Congress for ‘dog ate my homework’ excuses But Manning never disclosed she purchased the stock in the first place — …

Trading Democratic North Carolina Stock House Members Act

1 year, 5 months ago

Delhi floods: At Nigambodh, a search for remains

Hindustan Times

At Nigambodh Ghat, the biggest cremation facility in the city on the banks of the Yamuna, the receding water level of the river has left behind a new set of problems — damaged equipment, non-functional hearse vans, missing records, and thick sludge covering the entire complex. “Three jetting machines have also been put to use to clean the layers of …

Gupta Remains Ngo Nigambodh

1 year, 6 months ago

Karnataka: sewage flow one of the reasons behind foam in Bellandur Lake

Hindustan Times

A four-year long study by researchers at Indian Institute of Science has revealed three key aspects that are causing upsurge of foam, froth and occasional fire in the lake Bellandur lake in Bengaluru. As more and more sewage flows through the lake, surfactants in the sewage do not decompose and instead get loosely attached to the settled sludge, gradually increasing …

Water Foam Lake Sewage Sludge Cst Bellandur Lake

1 year, 6 months ago

IISc researchers unveil the mystery behind Bellandur lake’s foam

The Hindu

A team from the Indian Institute of Science’s Centre for Sustainable Technologies, which has been monitoring continuously Bellandur lake’s infamous foam for the last four years; has uncovered the reason behind this phenomenon. However, as the water level in the lake rises due to rains, the excess water containing large concentrations of the surfactants spills over into the lake’s outlet …

Water Foam Lake Sewage Sludge Surfactants Centre For Sustainable Technologies

1 year, 7 months ago

6-year-old drowns to death in rainwater-filled sludge pit

Deccan Chronicle

HYDERABAD: Unseasonal rains continue to lead to deaths, the latest being that of a six-year-old boy, who drowned in a large pit in a privately-owned plot near his residence in Jubilee Hills on Tuesday morning. The police said that the plot owner, P. Davender, owner of a jewellery store, had constructed a cow shed two years ago and fenced the …

Pit Jubilee Hills Vivekananda Bheemshankar

1 year, 8 months ago

Acres of L.A. County sewage sludge threaten to contaminate Tulare Lake floodwaters

LA Times

Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. “When the southwest corner of Tulare Lake floods, thousands of tons of L.A. County sewage sludge, containing toxic heavy metals, will become part of the mix in the newly formed lake,” said Tom Frantz, a retired schoolteacher and environmental …

Water Kings Los Waste Site Facility Los Angeles Times

1 year, 9 months ago

Anna University’s Centre for Environmental Studies develops indigenous technology to treat wastewater

The Hindu

In an effort to save power and less sludge production, the Centre for Environmental Studies, Anna University, has developed an indigenous technology to treat wastewater and reuse it. Developed with industrial collaboration, the Attached Growth Batch Bioreactor technology uses a combination of attached and suspended growth processes within bioreactor. The design of the bioreactor improves the efficiency of the process …

Technology Develops Indigenous

1 year, 9 months ago

Experts say TOILET PAPER is major source of toxic 'forever chemicals' linked to infertility, cancer

Daily Mail

There are surprising and potentially carcinogenic chemicals in toilet paper sold in the US, a new study suggests. Researchers from the University of Florida found evidence of the chemicals in toilet paper sold all over the world and in sewage sludge samples from eight wastewater treatment plants in Florida. University of Florida scientists found diPAP, one type of PFAS, Lead …

Florida Water Chemicals Paper Toilet Source Pfas

1 year, 10 months ago

O.C. Sanitation to demo tech that kills ‘forever chemicals,’ turning waste into water, clean energy

LA Times

Assistant General Manager Rob Thompson on Wednesday by a trickling filter at O.C. Sanitation officials have partnered with North Carolina-based cleantech company 374Water to bring a supercritical water oxidation unit, AirSCWO, capable of treating up to 6 tons of wet sludge per day, to the Fountain Valley facility as part of a demonstration project. “We’re trying to work our way …

Technology Tech Water Process Sanitation Valley Unit

1 year, 11 months ago

How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat

BBC

How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat Nailia Schwarz/Alamy Root vegetables such as carrots appear to absorb more microplastics than other fruit and vegetables Plastic pollution is one of the defining legacies of our modern way of life, but it is now so widespread it is even finding its way into fruit and vegetables as they grow. The number …

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2 years ago

Tiruppur textile processing sector struggles with mixed waste salt

The Hindu

Accumulated mixed waste salt and bio sludge that are generated from effluent treatment of textile processing units are a major challenge to the textile processing sector in Tiruppur. It is said that nearly 60,000 tonnes of mixed waste salt and about 50,000 tonnes of bio sludge lie piled up at the common and individual effluent treatment plants in the knitwear …

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Texas farmers say sewage-based fertilizer tainted with 'forever chemicals' killed animals

Netherlands' landfills for sludge rapidly filling up

Trump's chief of staff pick worked as a tobacco lobbyist while running 2024 campaign

Shocking video shows bucket of black filth that cleaner extracted from just four seats on London Underground tube train

Big Oil dishes out record $54.2 million to boost GOP candidates: analysis

'Obvious conflict of interest': Report reveals 50+ U.S. lawmakers hold military stocks

Wayanad landslide area could fit 13 football fields: ISRO assessment

Trump’s top campaign money bundler connected to Ohio’s largest public corruption scandal

Seeing the world in a slushy pond

Kerala govt deposits ₹335 crore in ring-fenced account for waste management projects

Sludge compost is an increasing source of microplastics, researchers say

Electricity self-sufficiency is the aim for sewage treatment plant

Electricity self-sufficiency is the aim for sewage treatment plant

Oops, I did it again: This Democratic congresswoman violated a federal law for a second time

Delhi floods: At Nigambodh, a search for remains

Karnataka: sewage flow one of the reasons behind foam in Bellandur Lake

IISc researchers unveil the mystery behind Bellandur lake’s foam

6-year-old drowns to death in rainwater-filled sludge pit

Acres of L.A. County sewage sludge threaten to contaminate Tulare Lake floodwaters

Anna University’s Centre for Environmental Studies develops indigenous technology to treat wastewater

Experts say TOILET PAPER is major source of toxic 'forever chemicals' linked to infertility, cancer

O.C. Sanitation to demo tech that kills ‘forever chemicals,’ turning waste into water, clean energy

How microplastics are infiltrating the food you eat

Tiruppur textile processing sector struggles with mixed waste salt