Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mosaic Company, a major player in the fertilizer industry, has initiated a controversial plan to dispose of contaminated ...

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 ...

RUNNING DRY: When desalination plants remove salt from water, they're left with concentrated brine that needs to go somewhere. Deep well injection pushes this waste up to a mile underground using high ...

Bradenton Mayor Gene Brown says the city is years ahead of a 2032 deadline to stop discharging treated wastewater into the Manatee River, but there’s still plenty of work to do . One of the newest ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Starting Tuesday, the injection well at Piney Point will start pumping water 3,300 feet into the ground. Those in charge of the project say the water has been filtered and the ...

Largo commissioners are moving forward with plans to build two deep injection wells at the city’s Wastewater Reclamation Facility. LARGO — The Largo City Commission on Oct. 7 approved two contracts ...

For many years, America’s rural places have served as dumping grounds. Counties like ours often lack economic opportunity, have lax regulatory environments and hold little political power. That makes ...

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, ...

WEATHERSFIELD — AWMS Water Solutions of Howland, the company that owns two oil and gas wastewater injection wells along state Route 169 in Weathersfield Township just north of Niles, says the outcome ...

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 ...

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 ...