Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/florida-radioactive-roads-phosphogypsum-potentially-cancer-causing-mining-waste-bill-signed-ron-desantis/

Under the new bill, Florida could have roads made of phosphogypsum, a material known by the EPA to contain a "potentially cancer-causing, radioactive gas," that's the second-leading cause of lung cancer in the U.S.

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Girlparts@kbin.social · 17 pts · 3y

Florida has a lot of phosphate mines and those mines have a lot of that waste. Bet money he was bribed

Fredsshilksirt@kbin.social · 5 pts · 3y

cancer causing roads baked in the cancer causing FL sun. Where's Bugs Bunny with a hand saw when you need him?

WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

Hopefully the epa blocks this. Radon! Jesus.

NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

As if I didn't need another reason to ever visit Flordia. Better include Georgia, Alabama Louisiana and South Carolina as a buffer zone while I'm at it.

binaryphile@kbin.social · 2 pts · 3y

If this chucklehead ever sees the general, we need to crucify him with this conspicuously braindead stuff that literally no one, even the nutballs, want around them.