Following on the heels of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act which provided significant investment in water and wastewater infrastructure, Congress is now debating the Build Back Better bill which also includes important steps forward for water and climate. Join us Tuesday as we talk with Nat Mund (Southern Environmental Law Center) and Julian Gonzalez [...]
SLUDGED! Free Fertilizer? Hmmm….. Presented by Julie Lay How one former industrial agriculture employee discovered municipality and industrial waste water sludge being used as fertilizer on crop land. What she found out, how it impacts YOU, and what you can do. Julie Lay holds a BS in Animal Science from Auburn University and is a former Industrial [...]
Water is Life: Waste Sludge Update with Barry Brock (SELC), Julie Lay (Alabama Waste Sludge Awareness) and Doris Cellarius (Sierra Club). Waste in the form of sludge generated from industries like poultry processing plants and wastewater treatment plants is being sprayed on farm fields and property across Alabama and touted as beneficial use. This sludge [...]