Trump Administration Declares Toxic Sewer Sludge Not a Threat to Public Health

Photo: Loading sewage sludge into a spreader for field application (Germany – October 11, 2011). Photo credit: SuSanA Secretariat via Wikimedia Commons. CC BY 2.0. Article by Joe Wilkins. Futurism – July 23, 2026.

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. On Monday, the Guardian reported that the Environmental Protection Agency is tossing out a major body of research that formed the basis for regulations which would have effectively limited the amount of sewage byproduct we’re allowed to spray into the environment. […]

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