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A Radioactive Waste Stack Looms Beside a Segregation-Era Community—and It’s Expanding

Inside Climate News · By Amy Green · last updated
Progress Village was established decades ago to provide affordable housing for Black residents near Tampa. The phosphogypsum stack, containing the toxic waste of fertilizer production, is right next door.

By Amy Green

PROGRESS VILLAGE, Fla.—The radioactive phosphogypsum stack looms tall and wide beside this small, neighborly community southeast of Tampa.