Maryland?s NAACP is calling for a state and federal criminal investigation into Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture for spreading sewage sludge in poor, black communities in Baltimore.

At the same time, congressional lawmakers plan hearings on possible dangers of sludge, or treated human waste spread as fertilizer.

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