By Levi Novey •
September 11, 2008
San Antonio, Texas will be the first city in the United States to produce natural gas from the methane that comes from the poop of its residents on a large, profitable scale. Our excrement is being more technically referred to as “biosolids” by the companies and agencies involved in the project. And the project is by no means a joke.
By Patrick Donnelly •
February 21, 2007
Hinkley residents protest new sludge facility (source: HelpHinkley.org)The small California Desert community of Hinkley, made famous by true story portrayed in the movie Erin Brockovich
, is under the gun again. However this time, it's not a hidden threat like hexavalent chromium-6, secretly poisoning their water supply and sickening the town. This time the threat is out in the open,
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