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EPA dropped a first-of-its-kind lawsuit against a plastics company unintentionally making “forever chemicals,” seemingly accepting defeat after a federal appellate court blocked the agency’s attempt to pause production altogether. The federal government filed a notice ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association, or MOFGA, claims that federal law requires the EPA to regulate toxic pollutants in sludge and take steps to prevent them from harming humans and the environment. Its failure to do so has put us all at risk, said MOFGA Director Sarah ...

Inside Fort Worth’s December 2022 grand opening of a wastewater treatment plant, the mood was celebratory. After years of controversy and a $59 million state loan, city officials were seeing the fruits of their labor: a facility capable of taking in tons of sewage sludge and turning it ...

The Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Indian Education last month was legally compelled to publicly release an investigative report into Haskell Indian Nations University (HINU) that was finished more than a year ago. Haskell, located in Lawrence, Kan., is operated by the Interior ...

The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association announced Tuesday that it plans to sue federal regulators over the issue of forever chemicals in sludge. MOFGA says it intends to sue the EPA under the Clean Water Act. The organization plans to work with Public Employees for ...

Maine’s reckoning with the legacy of “forever chemicals” on its agricultural land may expand to federal court this summer. The Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association filed a notice of intent May 14 to sue the United States Environmental Protection Agency, alleging it failed ...