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Dumping Acidic Water In Gulf Is Best Of Dismal Alternatives
The Florida Department of Environmental Protection proposes an unusual way to deal with a grave pollution threat to Tampa Bay. It wants to discharge nutrient-laced water into the Gulf of Mexico. The agency is seeking emergency approval by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency of its plan to get rid of the 600 million gallons of […]
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DEP Aims To Up Dump In Bay
PALMETTO – State environmental officials Thursday proposed to more than double the amount of treated waste water dumped daily into Tampa Bay from a toxic cleanup. The Department of Environmental Protection has asked for an emergency order to allow 2 million gallons of treated waste water from Piney Point, a former phosphate fertilizer plant, to […]
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Coronet Working To Control Arsenic
PLANT CITY – Each time the region experiences heavy rain, settling ponds at one of the county’s oldest phosphate processing plants release arsenic and other toxins into a nearby stream. Coronet Industries, at 4082 Coronet Road on the east side of Plant City, is under orders from the state to make sure the spills don’t […]
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Investigation into Buffalo deaths near Phosphate plant
The probe into the death of more than 35 buffaloes in Chitrapuzha recently has come to a virtual halt with the Animal Husbandry Department deciding not to submit its post-mortem report to the Pollution Control Board (PCB). The department decision was taken on the basis that the results of the post-mortem conducted on the buffaloes […]
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Phosphate industry aims to be corporate neighbor
The phosphate mining industry attempts to promote favorable regulations and a positive image in the ways one might expect of a billion-dollar global industry. The industry lobbies lawmakers, contributes to community coffers and publishes literature that suggests phosphate mining pumps billions of dollars into the economy and leaves behind reclaimed lands in a near-pristine condition. […]
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Superfund site might pose greater risk, legal fight shows
Depositions and court documents in a massive lawsuit against Conoco Inc. indicate that pollution problems from the old Agrico Chemical Co. Superfund site could be much more severe than originally believed. Evidence gathered in the suit against Conoco, the site’s owner, shows there are areas outside Agrico’s 35-acre boundaries that might not have been properly […]
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EPA amends phosphoric acid and fertilizer rules
The EPA has amended its toxic-airpollutant regulations for phosphoric acid manufacturing plants and phosphate fertilizer production plants. The amendments resolve issues and questions raised by industry after the original regulations were issued in June 1999. Most of the phosphoric acid produced by phosphoric acid manufacturing plants is used in the production of phosphate-based fertilizers. Various […]
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Oswal Phosphate Plant facing Closure due to Fluoride Contamination
The di-ammonia plant (DAP) of Oswal Chemicals and Fertilisers Ltd at Paradip will be closed for causing environmental pollution. A joint inspection team (JIT) of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest, Central Pollution Control Board and the Orissa State Pollution Control Board have ordered the closure. The JIT has opined that unless the company […]
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Reclaimed mine is not as safe as once thought
AUBURNDALE – It has been widely hailed as a success story, a sterling effort that two decades ago reclaimed strip-mined phosphate lands and converted them into a state preserve attracting thousands each year. In reality, Tenoroc Fish Management Area in Polk County may be closer to a horror story, the land tainted by high levels […]
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One third of fish species in Peace River may be history
The Peace River, which flows through the middle of Central Florida’s phosphate mining belt, has lost about a third of the fish species it once had, according to environmental scientist Thomas Fraser. Also, the types of fish now found in the Peace caused a scientist in 1986 to group it with the Alafia — a […]
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