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Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 1 year ago by Girlparts@kbin.social to c/news@kbin.social

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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 16 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Fredsshilksirt@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

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

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Hopefully the epa blocks this. Radon! Jesus.

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