Vol. 1, No. 1, September 1998

The Case For Caution: Recommendations for Land Application of Sewage Sludges and An Appraisal of the US EPA's Part 503 Sludge Rules, Ellen Z. Harrison, Murray B. McBride and David R. Bouldin, Working Paper, August 1997, revised February 1999. To order write to Cornell Waste Management Institute, 100 Rice Hall, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-5601; (607) 255-1187

The Science of the Unpleasant: Risk assessment and Urban Sludge, Panel Presentations at the American Assoiation for the Advancement of Science 150th Anniversary, February, 14 1998

John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton, Toxic Sludge is Good for You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry, Common Courage Press (Monroe, Maine), 1995. To order call (608) 238-2236. Full text of Chapter 8 "The Sludge Hits the Fan" is available at http://host.envirolink.org/enviroissues/sludge/sludge.html.

The Workbook, Southwest Research & Information Center, PO Box 4524, 105 Stanford SE, Albuquerque, NM 87106; Tel: (505) 346-1455; Fax: (505) 346-1459; Copies are $3.50 including postage. (79 pages, excellent resource!)

Public Fact Sheets, National Sludge Alliance (NSA), Charlotte Hartman, National Coordinator, NSA, Box 130, Copake, NY 12516; (518) 329-2120 (phone/fax); for hard copies send $5.00.

Peter Montague, ed., Rachel's Environment & Health Weekly, #560, 561 (Aug. 21 and 28, 1997), Environmental Research Foundation, PO Box 5036, Annapolis, MD 21403-7036; Tel: (410) 263-8944; email: erf@rachel.clark.net. Back issues are available by e-mail; to get instructions, send e-mail to info@rachel.org with the single word HELP in the message.

Abby Rockefeller, "Civilization and Sludge: Notes on the History of the Management of Human Excreta," Current World Leaders, Vol. 39, No. 6 (Dec. 1996), pp. 99-113, International Academy at Santa Barbara, 800 Garden St, Suite D, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. (Includes other books and papers as well as links to other sludge resources.)

Stanford Tackett, Ph.D., "The Myth of Sludge Safety," May 1994; 109 Shady Drive, Indiana, PA 15701; e-mail: stackett@microserve.net

Duff Wilson, "Fear in the Fields," special series, Seattle Times, July 1997, Seattle Times, PO Box 1926, Seattle, WA 98111. Hard copy available through mail order for $1.00.

Impact of Sludge Disposal on Human Health and the Food Chain, Citizen's Environmental Coalition (CEC), 33 Central Ave., Albany, NY 12210; (518) 462-5527 (available for $10)

General Accounting Office (GAO) studies, order by phone (202) 512-6000 (first issue free)

Use of Reclaimed Water and Sludge in Food Crop Production, National Research Council, to order call (800) 624-6242.

Recycling Organic Waste: From Urban Pollutant to Farm Resource, Worldwatch Paper No. 135, by Gary Gardner, August 1997. Worldwatch Institute, 1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20036-1904, Tel: (202) 452-1999; Email: wwpub@worldwatch.org; Web: www.worldwatch.org/pubs/paper/135.html

Joel Bleifuss, "Nightmare soil," In These Times, October 16, 1995, pp. 12-16.

Theo Colborn, Dianne Dumanoski and John Peterson Myers, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival?-A Scientific Detective Story, March 1997

"EPA Science: Casualty of Election Politics," by David L. Lewis, US EPA, Nature, Vol. 381, June 27, 1996; (706) 355-8000