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Fertilizer use can harm the environment, but farmers rely on it for increased yield and profits.
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Critics warn against industry-driven environmental research agendas in Florida.
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How does the fertilizer industry fund research?
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Scientists expect to release the forecast for the size of this year’s oxygen-depleted zone this week.
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Florida’s old phosphate mines have been turned into housing developments, parks, bass lakes, golf courses and restored habitat. Does “reclaiming” live up to the claims?
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Congress has a chance once every five years to transform conservation in agriculture. Will they take it?
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How vulnerable are the southeast’s phosphate plants, mines and mountains of waste to stronger rains and hurricanes?
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Along one section of the Mississippi River, three massive fertilizer plants contribute to industrial pollution in Louisiana communities.
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One of the most common elements in the universe, nitrogen is also a crucial ingredient in fertilizer. All living things need it to survive. But it can kill, too.
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Abundant phosphate reserves made the Sunshine State a key player in the global fertilizer industry — leading to both riches and sacrifices.
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Said Rep. Anna Eskamani, D-Orlando: "I am concerned that our approach is one that does not take in consideration health risks.”
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The digging of a deep well at the troubled Piney Point phosphate plant in Manatee County has been completed. Now, workers are injecting 1 million gallons of polluted water deep underground, every day. WUSF takes a tour of the site, to see what's being done to make sure huge spills don't happen again.