Month: April 2022

  • Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian

    Pollution from Florida mining a concern with Hurricane Ian

    Environmental groups say that Hurricane Ian could leak or otherwise pollute more than a billion tonnes of polluted waste from Florida’s phosphate fertiliser mining industry. The waste is stored in “stacks” that look like huge ponds. There are 24 of these phosphogypsum stacks in Florida. Most of them are in mining areas in the middle…

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