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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Lawsuit Launched Over EPA’s Oversight Failure on Dangerous Phosphate Mining Waste
In February 2021, 17 organizations petitioned the EPA to better regulate phosphogypsum and process wastewater under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. The two radioactive, toxic wastes are ...
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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 ...
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Florida plans to build a road with radioactive waste—and the EPA is under fire for approving it
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 ...