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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. RUNNING DRY: When desalination plants remove salt from water, they're left with concentrated brine that needs to go somewhere.

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 ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County Commissioners Tuesday voted 6-1 to authorize a deep well injection project at the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant. The construction agreement was ...

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 ...

Though a precise connection can't yet be drawn, all signs are pointing to a deep-well injection project by the Bureau of Reclamation as the genesis of an unusually large earthquake felt across the ...

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 ...