MANATEE CO., Fla. (WFLA) — Drilling in Piney Point has started, beginning the process of creating a deep injection well at the historically problematic phosphogypsum stack in Manatee County. The start ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – The owner of the embattled Piney Point gypsum stack has proposed “numerous solutions” to the state over the years and did everything “required” to maintain the site, ...

Herb Donica atop the gypsum stack when digging began on the deep-well injection site in April. There has been a lot of progress in the long-awaited closure of the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant ...

Florida regulators have agreed to a settlement in a federal lawsuit over pollution from Piney Point that will create tougher pollution standards and federally enforceable oversight for the industrial ...

Site operators say they are making “amazing progress” at Piney Point, where the first pond is set to finally be closed by the end of July. More than 63 million gallons of contaminated water have also ...

Earlier this year, more than 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater were discharged into local waters because of a leak at Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility in Manatee County, ...

South side of the Piney Point gypstack. Courtesy/Center for Biological Diversity. Several conservation groups say they plan to sue Manatee County because of a proposal to inject water from the Piney ...

Three years ago, a breach at the former Piney Point fertilizer plant released about 215 million gallons of polluted wastewater into Tampa Bay. The incident made international headlines, forced nearby ...

WASHINGTON, April 13 (TNSOps) -- The Center for Biological Diversity issued the following news release on April 12, 2021: Conservation and public-health groups called on Congress today to investigate ...