Environment

New and Improved Santa Sweets: ”A Little Less Poisonous!”

October 14, 2005

Plant City’s Ag-mart was just fined a record amount by Florida for forcing workers into dangerous pesticide-laden fields and harvesting produce too soon after applying poisons. Florida agriculture officials have slapped Ag-Mart Inc., one of the state’s largest vegetable growers, with $111,200 in fines for 88 counts of pesticide misuse. The “extensive violations” breached regulations [...]

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Priorities

September 21, 2005

No money for the homeless (an elite group that has little to pay), but a new $40 million sports complex? No problem. Today is the first time in five years commissioners are divvying some of the half-cent sales tax, with nearly $350 million up for grabs. The tax is expected to generate $4.8 billion before [...]

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State coddles criminal phosphate producer

July 2, 2005
State coddles criminal phosphate producer

Mosaic, the new Cargill phosphate entity has been lightly slapped on the wrist for a huge toxic spill that was mostly lost amid the roar of many hurricanes last year. The owner of a Riverview phosphate factory has been fined $270,000 over a dike that broke during Hurricane Frances, dumping millions of gallons of acidic [...]

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