Environmentalists say Mosaic not doing enough to clean-up mining waste; Author Les Leopold talks about his new book on inequality

Share
Les Leopold. Author of Runaway Inequality: An Activist's Guide to Economic Justice

By Rob Lorei

If you’ve been thorough rural areas of Hillsborough, Polk, Hardee, Manatee or Sarasota counties, you’ve probably noticed large mounds of earth  dotting the landscape; these are landfills for toxic waste from  phosphate and gypsum mining. Last Month, the EPA and the Mosaic corporation,which operates many of the mines, reached a $2 billion dollar lawsuit settlement to clean-up six sites in Florida. Friday’s guest, Andre Mele with environmental group Suncoast Waterkeeper, said Mosaic still is not doing enough to protect the environment and people living near the mining operations.  His coalition says the 24 phosphogypsum stacks around West Central Florida are the largest repository of toxic and hazardous waste in the US.

Then we spoke with Author Les Leopold, about his new book  Runaway Inequality: An Activist’s Guide to Economic Justice, which explains the economics of how the United States has become the most financially unequal developed nation in the world.

All on Radioactivity, Friday, November 13, 2015

 

Leave a Reply

  • (will not be published)

XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <s> <strike> <strong>

You may also like

The Many Ways Florida Makes It Harder to Participate In Democracy

Florida makes It harder to participate in democracy with more...

development of house construction
Manatee County may face hurdles from state government while trying to stop development

Listen: Manatee County Commissioners are pushing back on changes that...

The Scoop: Mon. May 19, 2025, Tampa Bay and Florida headlines by WMNF

Legislators discuss term limits in Florida.

Recent rains have improved drought in Florida as the official rainy season is set to begin

Stream flow and soil moisture data support widespread improvements to...

Ways to listen

WMNF is listener-supported. That means we don't advertise like a commercial station, and we're not part of a university.

Ways to support

WMNF volunteers have fun providing a variety of needed services to keep your community radio station alive and kickin'.

Jazz in the Night
Jazz in the Night