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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 . ....
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A coalition of environmental groups filed a federal lawsuit alleging that Florida and other defendants have long mishandled a former phosphate-plant site where massive amounts of contaminated water were released this spring to avert a potential catastrophe. ....
Local conservation groups have notified the state, Manatee County Port Authority and HRK Holdings of a lawsuit that they plan to file in the coming weeks over the wastewater breach in April at the former Piney Point fertilizer plant. The lawsuit seeks to shed light on the involvement that the Florida Department of Environmental Protection had in decisions leading to two emergency situations at the former fertilizer facility during the past decade. The DEP and the state have basically just been pointing the finger at HRK and saying we are going to bring all our resources to hold them accountable, but I think they need to be introspective, said Justin Bloom, founder of the Suncoast Waterkeeper. The facts will show they (the DEP) have been in control of this facility for 20 years. ....