NAACP wants more answers in Baltimore sludge project

Published April 23, 2008 4:00am ET



The NAACP is not satisfied with researchers? claims that the sewage sludge compost used to lower lead levels in inner-city soil was safe.

The Baltimore City branch of the NAACP and the Black United Fund of Greater Maryland held a news conference Tuesday evening at Union Baptist Church on Druid Hill Avenue, demanding to know what other experiments the federal Housing and Urban Development Department has funded in the city in the past 10 years.

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