The US Environmental Protection Bureau faces legal issues after approving a controversial plan to include radioactive waste in the road project at the end of last year.
Submitted by the Biodiversity Center challenge Depending on the Clean Air Act, the 11th US Circuit Court of the Appeals Court on February 19. The advocacy group said that since 1992, the Federal Government has banned the use of radioactive, carcinogenic and toxic waste produced by the fertilizer industry in the road construction.
The legal issue focuses on road projects proposed at the NEW WALES facility of Mosaic Fertilizer, a subsidiary of Mosaic Company, about 40 miles east of Tampa. The EPA approved the project in December 2024 and pointed out the approval that only applied to a single project and included the conditions to make sure that the project remains within the scope of the application. However, Ragan Whitlock, a florida lawyer at the Biological Diversity Center, feared that this project could build more roads with toxic waste.
“It’s not just a science experiment that makes this process so surprised,” he said. “It is charged as a middle stage between the laboratory test and the full implementation of the idea. So our concern is that all the methodologies used in this project will be used for national approval. ”
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Phosphogypsum contains radium, which is when it collapses when forming radon gas. Radium and radon are both radioactive and can cause cancer. In general, the POS for three islands are placed in engineered piles called stacks to restrict public exposure to radon emissions. The stack can expand by reaching or closed, which includes drainage and capping. According to the Biological Diversity Center, more than 1 billion tons of waste is stored in the stack of Florida, and the fertilizer industry adds about 40 million tons annually.
Mosaic aims to build a test road with four sections near Florida stacks, and each is made of various mixtures of Force Fon Attam. Waste is used on road bases and is packed with asphalt. Researchers at the Florida University will participate in this study.
In response to the proposal, most of the EPA’s opinions were generally opposed to the use of POS POISE Island in the road construction and criticized the method of management of waste, but the federal agency said that the opinion was out of the scope of review. The agency refused to mention the withholding lawsuit.
The EPA found that MOSAIC’s risk assessment can be technically accepted and the potential radiation risk of the proposed project meets regulatory requirements.
Mosaic was released in the past as a tampa bay in the past, facing the investigation in the past due to the leak of pine ponds in the past and collapsing in 2021. The mosaic did not respond to the request for a new lawsuit.
