Radioactive roads? EPA gives Mosaic Co. green light on phosphogypsum road study
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenlit a Mosaic Co. study to use a radioactive waste from fertilizer production as ...
FOX 13 Tampa Bay on MSN2 天
Mosaic to start pilot road project using radioactive waste material in Polk County soon
The Mosaic Company, a producer of phosphate, will soon be starting a pilot road project in Polk County that will use a ...
THE WEEK1 年
Florida's controversial plan to pave roads with a radioactive material
Phosphogypsum is described by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as "a waste product from manufacturing fertilizer." Phosphate rocks are dissolved to create phosphoric acid ...
Center for Biological Diversity3 个月
AMERICA'S FRIGHTENING PHOSPHATE PROBLEM
Making matters worse, Florida also has the majority of the industry’s radioactive waste, phosphogypsum — one billion tons. Strip mining for phosphate rock violently transforms the environment, ...
Fast Company1 个月
Florida plans to build a road with radioactive waste—and the EPA is under fire for ...
The advocacy group says the federal agency has prohibited the use of phosphogypsum, a radioactive, carcinogenic, and toxic waste generated by the fertilizer industry, in road construction since ...
Center for Biological Diversity1 个月
Lawsuit Challenges EPA’s Approval of Radioactive Roads
WASHINGTON— The Center for Biological Diversity sued the Environmental Protection Agency today for approving the use of radioactive phosphogypsum in road construction at Mosaic’s New Wales facility in ...