Plan to Build a Road With Radioactive Waste in Florida Prompts Legal Challenge Against the EPA

The Center for Biological Diversity is challenging the EPA’s approval of a plan to use radioactive waste in a road project near Tampa. The waste, phosphogypsum, is known to be carcinogenic and toxic. The EPA approved the project in December 2024, despite previous regulations prohibiting the use of phosphogypsum in road construction. The advocacy group is concerned that this approval could set a dangerous precedent for future projects. Mosaic Fertilizer, the company behind the project, aims to use varying mixtures of phosphogypsum in a test road near their Florida stack.

Source link