A consultant working for the EPA identified numerous scenarios in which the public — particularly road-construction workers — ...

Hurricane Milton led to the temporary closure of all phosphate mining facilities (integral petrochemical infrastructure) in ...

It is unclear to local communities if the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will permit the company’s request earlier this year to test 1,200 tons of phosphogypsum, an industrial byproduct of ...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.— Following Hurricane Ian’s path of destruction across Florida, demolished roads and collapsed bridges highlight the danger of proposals to use toxic, radioactive phosphogypsum ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Legislature introduced two bills today that would pave the way for the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in road construction. House Bill 1191 and Senate Bill 1258 would ...

The industrial byproduct, phosphogypsum, is known to emit radon, a cancer-causing radioactive gas. Mosaic said a storage system for water around a pile of phosphogypsum became overwhelmed in ...

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More than 1 billion tons of slightly radioactive phosphogypsum waste is stored in “stacks” that resemble enormous ponds at ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has granted preliminary approval for the use of a material that contains radioactive radium in a Florida road project that’s being described as a ...

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The substance at the center of the controversy is called "phosphogypsum" and is created in large quantities by the fertilizer industry, as a byproduct of the creation of important phosphorus.