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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Biesecker and Jason Dearen

Polluted waste from Florida's fertilizer industry is in the path of Milton's fury

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As Hurricane Milton bears down on Florida’s west coast with powerful winds and flooding rain, environmentalists are worried it could scatter the polluted leftovers of the state’s phosphate fertilizer mining industry and other hazardous waste across the peninsula and into vulnerable waterways.

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