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Florida bill allowing radioactive roads made of potentially cancer-causing mining waste signed by DeSantis (www.cbsnews.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/politics@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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[–] 3 points 3 years ago

Probably that there's a lot of it and it's cheaper than asphalt. I don't know for sure though.

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