The Town of Winthrop has been recommended to receive a $2.9 million loan from the state Department of Ecology (DOE) for upgrade of the town’s wastewater treatment plant, the DOE announced last week.

While biolace presents a promising solution, its effectiveness in handling illegal industrial discharges and shock loads was ...

Environmental advocates are renewing calls to ban the use of sewage sludge — or "biosolids" — as fertilizer, after an Environmental Protection Agency draft report found there may be health ...