MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — A day after ramping up the evacuation order to include over 300 residences, Manatee County Public Safety officials assured residents the controlled wastewater release at ...

The site of a former fertilizer plant in Palmetto, Florida, Piney Point made international headlines in 2021 when a breach in a containment wall released about 215 million gallons of polluted ...

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 ...

Drone footage shows crews pumping water from one of the Piney Point gyp stacks. The Manatee County Commission Tuesday okayed a proposal to pump remaining water from the Piney Point gyp stacks into a ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – An environmental disaster is looming on the horizon east of Tampa Bay as a phosphogypsum stack at Piney Point leaks, threatening to contaminate local water supplies. A ...

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 ...

Piney Point, a former phosphate mining facility that has been leaking potentially toxic water in the Tampa Bay area, may soon be cleaned up and heading to permanent closure. On Wednesday, Florida ...

Piney Point is no stranger in court, but a detailed lawsuit filed by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection could be the beginning of the end for the troubled industrial site. The state ...

ANNA MARIA, Fla — Emptying the wastewater into Port Manatee from the Piney Point reservoir might’ve been the quickest way to avoid potential catastrophe, but environmentalists say it’ll likely create ...

Last week, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection approved the pumping of wastewater into the Tampa Bay ecosystem from a reservoir at Piney Point – a former phosphate plant in Manatee ...

Florida officials continued to grapple with a pressing environmental and public health crisis on Monday, as the structurally compromised Piney Point reservoir threatened to flood the surrounding area ...

Many residents in Manatee County and the surrounding area have been affected by the situation unfolding at the former Piney Point fertilizer processing plant, after the Florida Department of ...