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From the Archives: Bending the rules at Piney Point, a $140-million mess In a 2003 story, a top state regulator called Piney Point “one of the biggest environmental threats in Florida history.”     The earthen embankment containing the Piney Point waste has suffered from structural problems requiring patching with gravel. (2003, Times Archive) [ CERRI, LARA | St. Petersburg Times ] By Craig Pittman, Julie Hauserman and Candace Rondeaux Published Jun. 20, 2006 The warning signs were clear: The Piney Point fertilizer plant was headed for disaster. State regulators knew in 1995...

Cancer medicines, sea squirts that heat melanoma and breast cancers and the sponges from florida that have been treating leukemia since 1969, so, here's the scenario. these chemicals are entering what's called the gulf loop. they will be carried past florida and barrelling past florida at an amazing speed, a billion cubic feet pr second past miami. up into georgia and then cape hatteras. >> so, the problem we know, here's my question to you. i know you're not an engineer on these rigs or anything like that, but do you see that anything else could be done that's not currently being done? >> no,...