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Trump Administration Declares Toxic Sewer Sludge Not a Threat to Public Health
['Joe Wilkins', 'Victor Tangermann', 'Frank Landymore', 'Maggie Harrison Dupré']
Futurism
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.
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