An early phosphate mine in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida. (Photo via Florida State Archives) When I was a kid growing up in Pensacola, I’d come home from school and immediately turn on ...

Phosphate rock mining, along with the inorganic fertilizers and animal feed supplements and pesticides for which phosphate is mined, pollute our air, contaminate our water and destroy invaluable ...

Over the past year The Mosaic Co., which operates mines across Florida’s phosphate-rich Bone Valley region, has applied to either test or begin injecting its phosphate wastewater far beneath the ...