“Florida’s phosphate mining industry is an industry of cradle-to-grave pollution. The cradle is phosphate mining, and the grave is the radioactive phosphogypsum waste dumped into gypstacks,” said ...

More than 300 homes near Tampa Bay have been evacuated, and a highway near the Piney Point reservoir has been closed. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis declared a state of emergency on Saturday.

The lawsuit comes after Florida regulators authorized the discharge of up to 480 million gallons of wastewater from the Piney Point phosphogypsum stack into Tampa Bay following years of regulatory ...