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Peter SchorschFebruary 16, 2017

Big business is not automatically bad business. The Tampa Bay Times learned a hard lesson about assumptions and the truth this week after publishing the opinions of two retired scientists who accused Mosaic Co. and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection of ignoring warnings of a growing sinkhole on Mosaic property. While the allegations fed […]

Mitch PerryFebruary 15, 2017

Last week, the Tampa Bay Times quoted two retired hydrology experts who slammed the phosphate giant Mosaic and the Florida Department of Environmental Protection over the massive sinkhole that exploded under a gypsum stack at Mosaic’s New Wales plant in Mulberry last summer, resulting in 215 million gallons of radioactive wastewater released into the Florida aquifer. Don Rice and Mary Hrenda told the Times that […]

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Faulty sinkhole reporting becomes hard lesson on rushing to judgment

Tampa Bay Times’ acknowledges its recent stories on Mosaic spill are inaccurate