Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...

The General Assembly is zeroing in on industrial sludge regulations with discussions on a cross-filed bill that would require a permit for its storage and use. The Industrial Sludge Utilization Permit ...

The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely limit, if not ban, sludge tanks in the county. Sludge tanks, also known as Dissolved Air Flotation tanks, are used by ...

Early October is a busy time for farmers in the wooded, agricultural countryside between Mardela Springs and Hebron, Maryland. It's harvesting season: The yellow-green soybean fields are replete with ...

A new method for dealing with accumulated sewage sludge on vessels and offshore platforms. Scienco/FAST has introduced a new way to deal with sludge with its standard MarineFAST Marine Sanitation ...

Edmond "Biff" Burns, a Hebron-area farmer, spreads chicken "sludge" on one of his cornfields Thursday, Oct. 3, 2019. The Wicomico County Council successfully introduced a bill that could severely ...