Florida wastewater leak spurs call for House probe into fertilizer byproduct

Environmental and public health groups are pressing the House energy and oversight committees to investigate what they say are failures in regulating the phosphate industry, pointing to the much-reported news of a near-collapse of a phosphogypsum (PG) stack in Florida and significant discharge of wastewater as a bellwether for needed action. The Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), on behalf of 25 groups, April 12 sent a letter to House Energy and Commerce Chair Frank Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) and Oversight and...