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Here are some very helpful articles about the toxic sludge fight across the country:

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SourceWatch Articles

 * Food Rights Network
 * Sewage sludge
 * Biosolids
 * You say biosolids, I say sewage sludge
 * Victims of sewage sludge
 * Toxic Sludge Products
 * Scientific Studies of Sewage Sludge
 * Sludge contaminants
 * Flame Retardants
 * Dioxins and Furans
 * Metals
 * Organochlorine Pesticides
 * Perfluorinated compounds
 * Antibiotics
 * Phthalates
 * Targeted National Sewage Sludge Survey
 * The EPA's plan to bypass opposition to sewage sludge disposal
 * Sewage sludge giveaways, producers, and brands
 * Water Environment Federation
 * US Composting Council
 * BioCycle
 * Sludge News
 * Sewage Sludge Primer

PRWatch Articles
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 * Rebekah Wilce, Looking for Kids' Books? Avoid this Propaganda, PRWatch.org, August 22, 2012
 * Sara Jerving, New Toxic Sludge PR and Lobbying Effort Gets Underway, PRWatch.org, March 16, 2012
 * Rebekah Wilce, More Free Sludge! Calabasas, California Offers Free Sewage Sludge, PRWatch.org, March 6, 2012.
 * Sara Jerving, Sara Jerving, Sewage Sludge Rash: Texas Musical Fest-Goers Blame "Dillo Dirt", PRWatch.org, March 2, 2012.
 * Rebekah Wilce, Meet Kellogg's Sludge Puppet, PRWatch.org, November 9, 2011.
 * Lisa Graves, Children Gardening in Sewage Sludge: Los Angeles Schools Alerted, PRWatch.org, October 11, 2011.
 * Jill Richardson, Los Angeles and Kern County's Epic Sewage Sludge Battle, PRWatch.org, October 5, 2011.
 * Jill Richardson, ALEC Exposed: Protecting Factory Farms and Sewage Sludge?, PRWatch.org, August 4, 2011.
 * John Stauber, San Francisco's Free "Organic Biosolids Compost" is Toxic Sludge, and Not Good For You!, PRWatch.org, August 17, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Chez Sludge: Complaint Filed Regarding Francesca Vietor's Threat to the Guardian, PRWatch.org, July 13, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters, PRWatch.org, July 9, 2010.
 * John Stauber, ACSH Makes Alice Waters a Poster Child for Toxic Sludge, PRWatch.org, April 13, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Waiter, There is Toxic Sludge in my Soup!, PRWatch.org, March 16, 2010.
 * John Stauber, San Francisco's Toxic Sludge: It's Good for You!, PRWatch.org, February 8, 2010.

External Articles

 * Dr. Steve Suppan, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, Nanomaterials In Soil: Our Future Food Chain?, organizational report, March 28, 2013.
 * University of North Carolina Gillings School of Global Public Health, Study: Sludge-based fertilizer may be causing human illnesses, university press release, March 11, 2013.
 * Xoco Shinbrot, Beyond Pesticides, "Biosolids or Biohazards?, Pesticides and You, organizational quarterly magazine, Volume 32, Number 3, Fall 2012, pp. 9-15.
 * Jill Richardson, Why Is the Monterey Aquarium Greenwashing Sewage Sludge?, FireDogLake, May 19, 2011.
 * Beth Buczynski, Celebrities Duped By Sewage Sludge Industry's 'Compost', Care2.com, May 7, 2011.
 * Rebecca Renner, Sludge Sloughs Off Perfluorinated Chemicals: Biosolids can leach perfluorinated chemicals into farm soil, albeit at low levels, Chemical and Engineering News, April 8, 2011.
 * Dr. Steve Wing, When Research Turns to Sludge, American Association of University Professors, November-December 2010.
 * Food Rights Network Finds Contaminants in "Organic Biosolids Compost", CMD, August 10, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Chez Sludge: How the Sewage Sludge Industry Bedded Alice Waters, July 9, 2010
 * James Burger, Kern wins again as U.S. Supreme Court refuses to hear sludge case, Bakersfield.com, June 1, 2010.
 * Barry Estabrook, Composted Sewage Stirs Up Bay Area Food Fight, The Atlantic, May 3, 2010.
 * Susan Galleymore, The Green Mayor Has Toxic Sludge on His Hands, Op-Ed News, April 25, 2010.
 * John Stauber, ACSH Makes Alice Waters a Poster Child for Toxic Sludge, PRWatch.org, April 12, 2010.
 * Leora Broydo Vestel, Food Groups Clash Over Compost Sludge, New York Times Green Inc. blog, April 9 2010.
 * Jill Richardson, What San Francisco Found in Their Own Sludge, La Vida Locavore blog, April 8, 2010.
 * Peter Fimrite, Groups make stink over S.F. 'biosolid' compost, SF Chronicle, April 7, 2010.
 * Jill Richardson, Francesca Takes Legal Action over Sludge Article, La Vida Locavore blog, April 7, 2010.
 * Suzanne Goldenberg, US chef Alice Waters criticised over sewage fertiliser: Top US healthy-eating chef Alice Waters attacked for supporting fertiliser made of sewage, UK Guardian, April 1, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Chef Alice Waters and Chez Panisse the Targets of a Toxic Sludge Protest, PRWatch.org, March 31, 2010.
 * Brady Welch, Shit show: What the SFPUC has been dumping in city gardens?, San Francisco Bay Guardian, March 23, 2010.
 * John Stauber, Waiter, There Is Toxic Sludge in my Organic Soup!, PRWatch.org, March 16, 2010.
 * Jill Richardson, Food Sunday: Toxic Sludge as 'Organic Fertilizer', FireDogLake, March 7, 2010.
 * Anna Werner, Concern Over SF Compost Made from Sewage Sludge, CBS Channel 5, March 3, 2010.
 * Chris Roberts, News Farmers Call PUC's Shit, Will Dump it on City Hall Today, San Francisco Appeal, March 4, 2010.
 * Josh Harkinson, |+The+Blue+Marble%29&utm_content=Twitter A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge Organic, Mother Jones magazine, March 4, 2010.
 * Evelyn Nieves, Claim: San Francisco giving gardeners toxic sludge, Associated Press in the Boston Globe, March 5, 2010.
 * Charlie Reid, There's a reason towns ban sludge spreading, Foster's Daily Democrat, February 21, 2010.
 * Barry Estabrook, Free Compost--Or Toxic Sludge?, The Atlantic, December 1, 2009.
 * Heather Knight, Nonprofit calls PUC's compost toxic sludge, San Francisco Chronicle, September 27, 2009.
 * Lawsuit Links Chemical To Cameron Tumors Brockovich Report Says Hexavalent Chromium Used As Fertilizer, KMBC-TV, April 23, 2009.
 * Mark Schultz, Biosolids concerns bubble to surface Neighbors say sewage sludge spread on fields may be making them sick, Chapel Hill News, April 19, 2009.