The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency greenlit a Mosaic Co. study to use a radioactive waste from fertilizer production as a road base.

The project, located east of Tampa, involves phosphogypsum, a radioactive, carcinogenic, and toxic waste generated by the ...

following recent federal approval of a pilot project studying ways to build roads with phosphogypsum. Environmental advocates have long raised alarm about the environmental hazards created by the ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

He also highlighted the need to rebuild several public facilities that once existed but have since deteriorated or ...