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Conservation, public health and environmental justice organizations notified the Environmental Protection Agency today of their intent to sue the agency for failing to respond to a rulemaking petition requesting stronger oversight and regulation of toxic and radioactive waste from phosphate mining and fertilizer production.
The notice comes three years after the groups petitioned the agency to strengthen protections for people’s health and the environment.
Closing Piney Point is personal for Jeff Barath. He has managed the site for 20 years, has watched the plant change ownership multiple times and has navigated several crises. Not by his choosing, Barath became the spokesperson for HRK Holdings, the company that owned the plant during a 2021 ecological disaster in which roughly 215 million gallons of tainted water from the fertilizer site were .
When will Piney Point close? We toured the troubled plant tampabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from tampabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.