Sludge

San Francisco's Toxic Sludge - It's Good for You!

by John Stauber — February 8, 2010 - 5:26pm

Fifteen years ago, CMD's book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You! first exposed the hidden government and industry PR campaign greenwashing toxic sewage sludge as "biosolids," an invented PR euphemism use

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Organic Consumers Association, February 8, 2010

Toxic Sludge - Better Than Ever!

by John Stauber — May 3, 2009 - 10:01am

For decades, government agencies and polluters have cynically and dangerously used the magic of PR to reclassify toxic sludge as "beneficial fertilizer," and thus haul it to rural farmlands where it is spread on fields out of sight, out of mind.

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Kansas City Star, May 2, 2009

Toxic Sludge Is Still Good for You!

by John Stauber — April 28, 2009 - 6:36am

In our 1995 book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, we examined how the Environmental Protection Agency and the sewage industry turned toxic sewage sludge into a "safe" fertilizer through PR, political bullying and weakened government regulations.

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Mother Jones, May/June 2009

The Fudge on Sludge

by Sheldon Rampton — April 28, 2008 - 1:00pm

David Lewis, a University of Georgia professor and former Environmental Protection Agency scientist, is suing officials at his university for publishing allegedly fraudulent research funded by the federal government.

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Integrity in Science Watch, April 28, 2008

Special Offer: Free Grass to Subject Your Children to Sludge

by Judith Siers-Poisson — April 23, 2008 - 7:13pm

Sludge keeps rearing its ugly head. Scientists used federal grant money to "spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil." The residents were not alerted to any harmful ingredients in the sludge, and were assured that it posed no health risks for their families.

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Baltimore Examiner, April 13, 2008

Chemical Association's PR To Make You Safer

by Jonathan Rosenblum — May 10, 2006 - 9:01am

The American Chemistry Council wants you to know that you're safer than you may think when toxic chemicals end up in your local groundwater and air. ACC has announced the hire of ex-Environmental Protection Agency spokesperson Lisa Harrison as its new vice president of communications. Says Ms.

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American Chemistry Council, April 26, 2006

Sludge Slippage

by Sheldon Rampton — January 3, 2004 - 2:33am

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has denied a petition from 73 labor, environment and farm groups calling for an immediate moratorium on land-based uses of sewage sludge - a practice that we exposed in our 1994 book, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You.

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Associated Press and New York Times, January 2-3, 2004

Toxic Sludge Is NOT Good For You

by John Stauber — June 25, 2003 - 10:00pm

Eight years ago, in 1995, PR Watch broke the stunning story of how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) promoted the use of toxic sewage sludge as cheap farm fertilizer . The major media failed to report the story. This EPA scandal became a long chapter in our 1995 book Toxic Sludge Is Good for You, documenting the deceptive EPA PR campaign.

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New York Times, June 26, 2003

Toxic Sludge -- Still Not Good For You!

by John Stauber — July 3, 2002 - 10:00pm

Seven years ago our book, Toxic Sludge Is Good For You, broke the story of how the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was disposing of toxic sewage sludge by calling it "biosolids, a natural organic fertilizer," and allowing it to be dumped on farmland across the US. Today 70% of the nation's toxic sewage sludge is spread on cropland, a major environmental scandal and a threat to public health.

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Reuters, July 4, 2002

Milwaukee Sewerage Drops $3-million PR Plan

by Laura Miller — April 21, 2002 - 11:00pm

Trade publication PR Week reports that critical news stories have caused the Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District (MMSD) to pull a $3-million PR plan that "would have gathered community input for its long-range planning process." The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's reporting on MMSD's PR spending led city commissioners to question the cost and details of the PR plan. According to the Journal Sentinel, MMSD's "budget for publicity and lobbying ranks fifth overall -- second among similar-sized systems -- and No.

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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, April 16, 2002; PR Week, April 22, 2002
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