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Environment Wednesday, April 7th 2021

Radioactivity Wednesday: Environmental Group Warns of “No Good Solutions” to Pending Disaster at Piney Point Phosphate Plant

March 31, 2021 Good Morning, welcome to Radioactivity. I’m Rob Lorei. The news that a holding pond at the former Piney Point phosphate plant in Northern Manatee County may be on the brink of collapse...

Environment Saturday, November 14th 2015

Environmentalists say Mosaic not doing enough to clean-up mining waste; Author Les Leopold talks about his new book on inequality

By Rob Lorei If you’ve been thorough rural areas of Hillsborough, Polk, Hardee, Manatee or Sarasota counties, you’ve probably noticed large mounds of earth dotting the landscape; these are landfills for toxic waste from phosphate...

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