CONVENT — As Mosaic Fertilizer struggles to control nearly 1 billion gallons of acidic and radioactive process water brimming inside storage lakes at its St. James Parish complex, it has an emergency ...

Environmental regulators are engaged in emergency mode in monitoring the stability of a large waste pile at a Mosaic Fertilizer plant in St. James Parish that is threatening to collapse along its ...

Mosaic's waste contains trace heavy metal contamination and slight radioactivity. The pile, already about 200 feet high, must ...

With the pumping and the construction of an earthen berm designed to brake the slipping wall now finished, Mosaic says it's now preparing for the next phase of its response. This involves building a ...

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – A Target 8 investigation is prompting Hillsborough County to ramp up water testing near the Mosaic plant just across the county line. Hillsborough County’s ...

MULBERRY -- Crews at Mosaic’s New Wales fertilizer plant are working frantically to remove contaminated, radioactive water from the Floridan aquifer. The sinkhole opened at the plant almost three ...

Phosphate mining in Florida. By Jaclyn Lopez (used with permission). Environmental activists, mostly from Southwest Florida’s Charlotte County, are challenging the phosphate company Mosaic’s water ...