Here are some links that some students may be interested in:

"Fateful Harvest" website

http://www.fatefulharvest.com/

"Fear in the Fields" (1998 series sparked the book)

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/ - fields

Progressive Media Project column (2002)

http://www.progressive.org/Media Project 2/mpwm1802.html

Australia series on similar topic (2002)

http://www.smh.com.au/specials/industrialwaste/

And my Reporter's Desktop

http://www.reporter.org/desktop

Tipsheet for reporters on haz-waste-fertilizer

http://www.seanet.com/~duff/ire/ferttip.htm

and biographical sketch

http://www.reporter.org/desktop/rd/duffbio.htm

"Factory Farming" (Environmental Working Group, 1998)

http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/factoryfarming/fertpress.html

Washington Toxics Coalition

http://www.watoxics.org/toxmenu.asp?name=TWF_OVER

Ex-Mayor Patty Martin's group

http://www.safefoodandfertilizer.com/

Washington state fertilizer site

http://www.wa.gov/agr/PestFert/Fertilizers/Metals.htm

Association of American Plant Food Control Officials

http://www.aapfco.org/

Washington's 1998 fertilizer laws

http://www.wa.gov/agr/PestFert/Fertilizers/Metals.htm

California's 2002 fertilizer law

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/cdfa/regs/docs/S2302.pdf

Oregon's 2002 fertilizer law

http://www.oda.state.or.us/fertilizer/pr120202.html