After 90 years of using injection wells to bury wastewater, including the past 13 years as the world’s biggest producer of oil and gas, the United States has a profound pollution crisis. The oil and ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Mosaic Company aims to inject wastewater contaminated during fertilizer mining and processing deep underground in Polk County, ...

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 ...

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, ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — The process of pumping 252 million gallons of treated wastewater 3,300 feet underground at about 680 gallons per minute has begun. It’s a massive undertaking, but for those who ...

Trillions of gallons of toxic wastewater quietly move through the American oil industry each year, a hidden flood that rivals ...

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 ...

The Manatee County-owned injection well dedicated to the disposal of Piney Point's contaminated wastewater has caused its first spill. The county has reported to the Florida Department of ...