BLEDSOE COUNTY, Tennessee — Bledsoe County residents are protesting against the transportation and distribution of human waste in the region’s fields. Now the mayor is calling on the state to intervene. The opposition follows efforts to convert waste from the Moccasin Bend wastewater treatment plant into fertilizer. Community members expressed serious concerns about the contents […]
In Phase 2, additional homes in Manorville and Calverton will be connected to SCWA water. (Photo credit: Tim Gannon) The Suffolk County Water Authority began work Monday to extend a key water main that will provide public water to 64 households in the Riverhead Town neighborhoods of Manorville and Calverton, which will be drained from […]
Madhvi Chittoor at a river cleanup event she co-organized in Denver. Photo credit: Courtesy of Madhvi Chittoor BWhen Madhvi Chittoor of Arvada, Colorado, learned at age 6 that PFAS “forever chemicals” were in all kinds of consumer products, she wanted to warn everyone. So she started with one person: Colorado State Senator Lisa Cutter, a […]
