The sewage sludge compost spread in a Baltimore City neighborhood, drawing calls for a federal investigation, poses no danger to residents, Johns Hopkins officials say.
Members of Congress, along with the city and state chapters of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, have called for federal investigations and congressional hearings into sludge spreading around nine homes by Johns Hopkins University and the U.S. Department of Agriculture as part of an study on ways to reduce high lead levels in soil.
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