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

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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Getty Images Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Saturday The pond where the leak was found is in a stack of phosphogypsum, a radioactive waste product from the manufacture of ...

At least 17,500 gallons of wastewater spilled into Tampa Bay from one of Mosaic’s 16 facilities housing phosphogypsum, a byproduct from processing phosphate to make fertilizer containing mildly ...

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 ...

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.

The Latest: Residents Begin Repairing Damage From Hurricane Milton, Which Killed at Least 10 Florida residents began repairing damage from Hurricane Milton, which smashed through coastal ...