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Florida GQP lawmakers pass a bill to use radioactive material in their roads. [1]

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Date: 2023-05-07

Phosphogypsum stack located near Fort Meade, Florida. These contain the waste byproducts of the phosphate fertilizer industry.

Anything to own the libtards.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Conservation groups across the Southeast United States are urging Gov. DeSantis to veto a bill that would allow the use of radioactive fertilizer waste in road construction across the state. The bill passed by legislators permits the use of toxic phosphogypsum in “demonstration” road projects in Florida. Critics said this is the first step in a phosphate industry push to eventually use the waste in roads nationwide. The Environmental Protection Agency prohibits using the toxic phosphate waste in roadway construction because it poses an unacceptable risk to road construction workers, public health and the environment.

Phosphogypsum is the radioactive waste leftover from fertilizer production.

In 2020 the Trump-era EPA approved the use of phosphogypsum in roads. Following a lawsuit and petition by the Center and other conservation, public health and union groups, in 2021 the agency withdrew that approval.

Florida has 25 piles of phosphogypsum; they weigh one billion tons, are hundreds of acres expansive, and are hundreds of feet tall. According to opponents of the bill, the industry has a lousy record of containing the material from sinkholes and spills. They threaten Tampa Bay and the Floridian aquifer.

Will Ron Desantis sign the bill? Likely, Florida is where Woke goes to die.

An aerial photo shows polluted water from the gypsum stack plunging like a waterfall into the sinkhole at the Mosaic complex. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection was notified about the sinkhole on Aug. 28 but did not notify the public until Sept. 19. Gov. Rick Scott said Monday that from now on, he wants the public to be notified about pollution-related incident within 24 hours.

From the People For Protecting Peace River press release:

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