Maryland's Renewable Portfolio Standard is failing to deliver on its renewable electricity goal and imposing unnecessary costs on the state's economy and residents ...

Some states have started to take their own measures. Maine, in particular, banned the use of sewage sludge on agricultural fields in 2022 and remains the only state to have done so. Still, an outright ban on the use of sludge as fertilizer would bring its own problems. Wastewater sludge ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the nonprofit Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, said EPA likely underestimated the risks posed by PFAS-laden sewage sludge. She questioned EPA’s assertion that most food produced in the U.S. “is not grown on fields ...

Kyla Bennett, director of science policy at the Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, an advocacy group working with the Texas ranchers, said the E.P.A.’s assessment was a good first step, but noted the agency had looked at only two kinds of PFAS, even as more were being ...

Numerous studies have raised the concern that waste exports could create a “race to the bottom” in which pollution ends up going to the places with the least environmental oversight. “The waste trade works like any other … They find the cheapest place to bring it,” said Tim ...