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In March, 2010 [[Carlyle Group]] teamed up with the Environmental Defense Fund. <ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2010/03/18/carlyle-group-teams-up-with-edf/ Carlyle Group Teams Up With EDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2010. </ref>
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==EDF Partners with [[Carlyle GropuGroup]]/[[Synagro]], Compnay Dumping Sewage Sludge on FarmlandFarms and Gardens==EDF creates formal corporate partnerships between itself and major corporations, such as the [[Carlyle Group]] with which it partnered in March, 2010. <ref>[http://blogs.wsj.com/privateequity/2010/03/18/carlyle-group-teams-up-with-edf/ Carlyle Group Teams Up With EDF], The Wall Street Journal, March 18, 2010. </ref> The Carlyle Group, a private investment corporation, owns [[Synagro]], the world's largest company producing [[sewage sludge]] "compost" and "fertilizer" that is dumped on farms and gardens.
Such partnerships are extremely lucrative for EDF. Although EDF claims it does not accept direct funding from its corporate partners, this is less than true since it aggressively fundraises among the individuals on the Boards of Directors, in management, and who are investors in its partners. Meanwhile, the corporate partner such as [[Carlyle Group]] can [[greenwash]] itself by pointing to its partnership with one of the world's best funded [[Big Green]] environmental groups.
In the 1970s and 1980s the EDF and other major environmental groups including EDF, [[NRDCNatural Resources Defense Council]] worked closely with the sewage industry and others supported endorsed moves by the [[Environmental Protection Agency to rename toxic [[sewage sludge]] as "[[biosolids]]" and dump this the waste onto farmland. Until May, 20102011, when EDF requested it be removed , the following quote appeared on a sludge industry website showing endorsement of this practice.
:"EDF and NRDC have been steadfast proponents of reusing biosolids of appropriate quality as the best biosolids management alternative. Biosolids can be a valuable natural resource."
:[[Fred Krupp|FRED KRUP]], Executive Director - [[John H. Adams|JOHN ADAMS]] Executive Director
:[[Environmental Defense Fund]] - [[NRDC|Natural Resources Defense Fund]]"<ref>[http://www.biosolidsinstitute.com/quotes/index.shtml Bio Solids - Notable Quotes], Accessed May 6, 2011.</ref>
EDF's [[Sean Crowley]] had the quote taken down, and he points out that there is no date or citation for the quote, which likely came from a consent decree among major environmental groups and the sewage sludge industry. While it is partnered with the world's largest sewage sludge company, [[Synagro]] of Carlyle Group, Crowley claims that EDF has not position on the practice of using agricultural farms and gardens as waste dumps for sludge.
[[NRDC]], on the other hand, became a critic of sludge dumping in 2002 and 2003, based on the [[dioxin]] contaminants in sewage sludge.
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