July 25, 2013
The Sewage Sludge Action Network is a signatory in an CAFO Rule NGO sign-on letter that has been sent to the White House with 236 organizations representing 30 states. View the letter
May 23, 2013
The Sewage Sludge Action Network has become involved in helping parents and concerned citizens in Alamance County, North Carolina to halt spraying of sewage sludge adjacent to elementary schools. With reports of higher than normal student illness and absenteeism rates, the practice needs to stop. The City of Burlington and the Alamance County Board of Education have been put on notice having been provided ample scientific evidence to suggest a causal relationship. To not act in protecting children from being exposed to the dangerous chemicals and pathogens contained in sewage sludge constitutes nothing less than willful negligence.
December 12, 2012
The toxic sewage sludge prevention and mitigation community lost one of its greatest activists - Maureen Reilly died on December 11, 2012. Maureen was a respected researcher and educator whose contributions were valued across Canada, in the United States and Europe. She was the editor of Sludge Watch, an online newsletter with a worldwide readership. From an on-line obituary "...for almost two decades, Maureen has been an inspired, tireless and preeminent researcher and campaigner against land application of sludge, assisting local communities throughout North America fight industrial and municipal proposals to re-brand toxic effluents of various types and consistencies and dump them as 'fertilizer' and 'beneficial biosolids' onto our food, aquifers, into our lives and bodies."
September 16, 2011
SEWAGE SLUDGE ACTION NETWORK (SSAN) is pleased to announce the group has been selected as a 2011 recipient of a Weaver Street Market’s Cooperative Community Fund grant. The $400 award will be presented at Weaver Street Market’s Annual Shareholder Meeting September 19th in Carrboro.
August 26, 2011
The Sewage Sludge Action Network is currently recruiting interns to assist the organization move forward with a number of initiatives related to protecting human and biological health from sewage sludge hazards. Students at Duke and Carolina are encouraged to apply. Please contact SSAN directly.