GEISMAR — Since the 1960s, fertilizer manufacturer PCS Nitrogen and its predecessors have piled up a 180-foot-tall mound of a chalky white chemical waste byproduct known as phosphogypsum on a remote ...
Environmental scientists have developed a circular process for eliminating the risk posed by phosphoric acid plant wastewater. The process turns the environmentally toxic wastewater into clean water ...
GEISMAR — A Louisiana fertilizer plant says it can treat contaminated and highly acidic wastewater to drinking-water standards and wants a state permit to discharge it into the Mississippi River — the ...