Standing atop the phosphogypsum stacks at Piney Point phosphate plant, you look at the settling pond that has caused a lot of trouble in the past, including releasing more than 200 million gallons ...

The 130-foot-tall tower is part of the construction equipment for a new deep-injection well at the treatment plant. Deep-injection wells are used to send water concentrated with minerals, a byproduct ...

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“The history of Piney Point has been: Whatever can go wrong, has gone wrong,” says Glenn Compton, the chairman of ManaSota-88, a local environmental advocacy organization. For years, Compton and ...

The Mosaic Company, a major player in the fertilizer industry, has initiated a controversial plan to dispose of contaminated wastewater by injecting it deep underground in Polk County. The move has ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — It’s been a little over a year since the disastrous Piney Point leak that poured 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Tampa Bay. Now, drillers say they’ve reached ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — It’s been two years since one of Piney Point’s gypstacks suffered a breach which led to the discharge of 215 million gallons of wastewater into Tampa Bay. Since then, ...

PORT SHELDON, MI — Consumers Energy is seeking approval to drill two deep injection wells at the J.H. Campbell plant to ...

LARGO — The Largo City Commission on Oct. 7 approved two contracts that pave the way for work to begin on the installation of a pair of wastewater deep injection wells. The 6-0 vote awarded a contract ...

Fertilizer company Mosaic plans to inject contaminated wastewater deep underground in Polk County, Florida. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection has issued an exploratory permit, not a ...