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 ...

RUNNING DRY: When desalination plants remove salt from water, they're left with concentrated brine that needs to go somewhere. Deep well injection pushes this waste up to a mile underground using high ...

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 ...

Though a precise connection can't yet be drawn, all signs are pointing to a deep-well injection project by the Bureau of Reclamation as the genesis of an unusually large earthquake felt across the ...

Herb Donica atop the gypsum stack when digging began on the deep-well injection site in April. There has been a lot of progress in the long-awaited closure of the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant ...

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 ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — It’s been a little over a year since the disastrous Piney Point leak that poured 200 million gallons of untreated wastewater into Tampa Bay. Now, drillers say they’ve reached ...

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, ...