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A U.S. Senate Committee briefing on the safety and science of land applying  sewage sludge this morning was canceled at the last minute. Staff for the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee, chaired by our own Sen. Barbara Boxer, said the hearing was called off after the committee learned late last night of a legal issue one of the witnesses is involved in related to sludge. Staff said the meeting was called off to ensure the focus of the hearing was the U.S. EPA's sludge spreading program and not a particular legal case. The cancellation comes after another last-minute switch earlier this week when committee Democrats downgraded a planned hearing on the issue to a briefing. The focus of the briefing was to be the science and safety issues related to EPA's sludge program. EPA had declined to participate, however. Committee staff said a briefing or hearing will be rescheduled for next year.          
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