With few local experts to consult and allegations piling up that sewage sludge spread as fertilizer causes illnesses, Peter Angelos is taking the lead.

Angelos, the Baltimore Orioles owner who made his fortune on asbestos lawsuits, and Chris Nidel, an environmental attorney from Washington D.C., filed a lawsuit with the York, Pa., courts, seeking unspecified damages from local offices of the country’s largest sludge-hauling company, Synagro Technologies Inc., for 35 residents of Shrewbury, Pa., a town 26 miles north of Towson in Baltimore County.

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