A federal agency recently approved using a slightly radioactive byproduct in a test road in Polk County. Ideally, roads ...

“Florida’s phosphate mining industry is an industry of cradle-to-grave pollution. The cradle is phosphate mining, and the grave is the radioactive phosphogypsum waste dumped into gypstacks,” said ...

Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is mined, pollute our air, contaminate our water and destroy invaluable ...

Gypstacks have been blamed for polluting Florida's waterways, including a leak at Piney Point in 2021, which led to hundreds of millions of gallons of polluted water being released into Tampa Bay.

Florida will soon be home ... phosphogypsum as it decays - whether in gypstacks or beneath roadways. “This would be an outrageous handout to the phosphate industry at the expense of the health ...