“The phosphate mining industry is an industry of cradle-to-grave pollution,” said Glenn Compton, chairman of Manasota-88. “The cradle is phosphate mining and the grave is the radioactive phosphogypsum ...

People for Protecting Peace River live in areas where this mining waste originates, the strip mines of Bone Valley, and we see the end waste causing harm to us and our neighbors.” “As public awareness ...

Phosphate is a raw material used to make new energy batteries in China's booming electric vehicle industry ... aluminum and fluorine from phosphate mining, according to Hong.