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Protect Our Communities from Radioactive Waste
Across the United States, fertilizer is produced by strip-mining phosphate rock from mineral deposits, and processing phosphate into phosphoric acid. This process creates radioactive waste called phosphogypsum.
Why This Matters
Phosphogypsum is stored in mountainous piles called "gypstacks" that are hundreds of acres wide and hundreds of feet tall. These radioactive gypstacks threaten communities in Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Illinois, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming.
Please — sign our community member's petition urging the Environmental Protection Agency to increase federal oversight over the safe treatment, storage and disposal of phosphogypsum and process wastewater.
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https://addup.sierraclub.org/campaigns/protect-our-communities-from-radioactive-waste