MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — In March of this year, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved the conceptual closure plan prepared by the site's court-appointed receiver — a huge milestone ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florida regulators have agreed to a settlement in a federal lawsuit over pollution from Piney Point that will create tougher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The site of a former fertilizer plant in Palmetto, Florida, Piney Point made international headlines in 2021 when a breach in a ...

ST. PETERSBURG — Environmental groups and Florida regulators have settled a lawsuit over the 2021 leak of millions of gallons of polluted water from a phosphate plant reservoir into Tampa Bay, which ...

TALLAHASSEE — Environmental groups and the state have reached a settlement to end a federal lawsuit over management of a former phosphate plant site that leaked millions of gallons of wastewater into ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Piney Point officials said on Wednesday they are preparing their latest attempt to recover from the environmental damage from when millions of gallons of wastewater were pumped ...

Florida’s lawsuit against the owner of the Piney Point fertilizer plant property breaks down the many ways the state says HRK Holdings failed to care for the site. It is supposed to leave no doubt ...

More than two years after Manatee County’s environmental disaster made national headlines, the long-neglected Piney Point site is closer than ever to final closure. When a giant pond began leaking and ...

Florida regulators have agreed to a settlement in a federal lawsuit over pollution from Piney Point that will create tougher pollution standards and federally enforceable oversight for the industrial ...