Toxics in Biosolids Fertilizer Prompt Texas Farmers’ Lawsuit
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Elizabeth Duan | February 23, 2024
A product liability lawsuit has been filed against a major manufacturer of biosolids-based fertilizer produced from sewage sludge. The lawsuit seeks compensation for damages caused by exposure to the toxic chemicals the fertilizer contains. Fertilizers produced from sewage sludge contain ...
MARYLAND: Ratepayers Subsidize Polluting Energy at Top Prices
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PEER | February 23, 2022
In 2020, about 25 percent of Maryland’s so-called “clean energy” under the state’s Tier 1 Renewable Portfolio Standard came from dirty sources, such as municipal solid waste burned to produce electricity and woody biomass or debris burned in power plants and paper mills. “ ...
Unregulated Corrosive 9/11 Dust Lands EPA in Court
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PEER | January 17, 2022
That was a critical danger facing first responders who arrived at the World Trade Center in September 2001 without health warnings or any personal protective equipment. The PEER lawsuit seeks a 10-fold tightening of the alkaline level of wastes classified as “corrosive” and thus “ ...
Low-level Radioactive Waste Could Go to Local Landfills
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Elizabeth Duan | April 8, 2020
“As the nation is focused on coping with the coronavirus pandemic, the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, NRC, is quietly moving to permanently deregulate massive amounts of low-level radioactive waste, but not spent nuclear fuel. By means of a proposed interpretive rule, the NRC ...
