“This opens the door for dangerous radioactive waste to be dumped in roadways across the state, under the guise of a so-called feasibility study that won’t address serious health and safety concerns.” DeSantis is paving the way to a toxic legacy generations of Floridians will have to grapple with,” Bennett said. “By signing off on this reckless handout to the fertilizer industry, Gov. “Our goal is to hopefully identify this as a suitable road base so that we don’t continue to just stack it and have these things that could potentially become Piney Point, and that we’re able to pull out some bad stuff and use it, you know, for a road base that’s safe,” Senate bill sponsor Jay Trumbull, R-Panama City, said while debating the proposal on May 1.īut Elise Bennett, an attorney who is Florida and Caribbean director for the Center for Biological Diversity, issued a statement Thursday that blasted the bill. It drew heavy attention in 2021 when about 215 million gallons of wastewater were discharged into Tampa Bay to avoid a potentially catastrophic breach at the closed Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County.
Phosphogypsum includes radioactive elements and is stored in huge stacks. The department will have to finish the evaluation by April 1. The measure ( HB 1191), which drew opposition from environmental groups, will require the Florida Department of Transportation to study the use of phosphogypsum in road-construction “aggregate” material. Ron DeSantis on Thursday signed a controversial measure that directs transportation officials to determine if a waste byproduct from the fertilizer industry could be used in building roads.
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