In the article below there is a list of lawmakers, mayors, commission and council members who oppose Mosaic’s desperate attempt to diminish their garbage by putting it in public roads where it will leach […]
Tom Palmer of Ancient Islands Group Sierra Club has written the following optimistic view of the Florida Legislature’s approval of putting gypstack material in Florida public road beds. This, of course, would help the polluting […]
FLORIDA PHOSPHATE INIATIATIVE PHOSPHOGYPSUM DANGERS A new post has often popped up on FaceBook lately—it is Phosphate Innovation Initiative — and it is full of lies and half-truths. Lies, because […]
Although not as dramatic as the New Wales giant sinkhole, this spill was not supposed to happen. Another example of when you have a phosphate mine you will have accidents. Both Mosaic and our DEP […]
Here is an excellent op-ed explaining why this easy-way-out solution is a terrible idea. This inexcusable situation has come to be because our DEP has failed us. They see their mission as protecting industry at […]
In the wake of a near-environmental disaster at the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is now entertaining plans to expand the New Wales gypstack – the same gypstack that suffered […]
Craig Pittman is airing some dirty laundry here that has been aired before, but the way industry aided by our governor and our Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) is legally killing our environment and polluting […]
Photo by Jim Tatum The following appeared in the Alachua-High Springs-Newberry Observer, vol. 17, no. 3, May 2019 Dealing with garbage from the phosphate industry The phosphate industry loves to tell us we need them […]
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