Consumers and agricultural workers rejoice: the Trump administration has killed a key regulation meant to keep toxic human and industrial waste sludge from our food supply, because toxic sludge is apparently not a threat to public health. “The EPA estimates that sewage sludge is applied to less than 1 percent of America’s farmland annually.” As with any data coming out of the Trump administration, these factual claims should be taken with a hefty grain of salt. For public health advocates like Dumais, the move amounts to a complete dereliction of the EPA’s duty to the public. More on Trump: Trump Administration Scrapping Nuclear Energy Rules Requiring Plants to Keep Radiation Levels “As Low as Reasonably Achievable”