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The settlement agreement negotiated between the environmental plaintiffs (Sierra Club, Manasota-88, and People for Protecting Peace River) was approved by the District Court.
A copy of the court’s order is attached to this email.

Hello Everyone:
As you may or may not know, Mosaic filed a notice of appeal on July 15 with the 11th Circuit regarding our second preliminary injunction which was granted on July 8. That appeal (No. 11-13277-EE) has officially begun with the filing of Mosaic’s Motion for Stay Pending Appeal, which [...]

EPA, GOP In ‘Head-To-Head’ Fight Over Residential Radiation Standard
Posted: July 8, 2011
A group of Republican congressmen from Florida are battling EPA over whether the agency should survey parts of the state where it fears tens of thousands of people living on former phosphate mines may be exposed to dangerous levels of radiation, with the lawmakers [...]

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From: Frank Jackalone, Sierra Club
Date: Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:57 AM
Subject: A Polluter’s Dream
To: protectpeaceriver@gmail.com
Dear Dennis,
Tell Your Senator:
Protect Florida from Bad Development
This session of the Florida legislature has been a nightmare. Many bills dismantling environmental protections in Florida have been introduced, but one of the worst is a hodge-podge bill [...]

Opponents challenge new Mosaic mining plan
By BRIAN ACKLEY
Fort Meade Leader/Polk County Democrat
Staff Writer
Published:
Saturday, April 23, 2011 1:54 PM EDT
A plan unveiled earlier this week that would keep mining operations going for at least another year is being challenged by opponents who filed a lawsuit last year to stop an expansion at Mosaic’s South Fort Meade [...]

PLYMOUTH, Minn., April 19, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) announced that it has notified the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida that it plans to conduct uplands-only mining (i.e., non-wetlands) in an area at its South Fort Meade, Florida, phosphate rock mine in Hardee County. This upland [...]

HB 7129: Growth Management (4/11/2011 PDF)
(t) Any proposed solid mineral mine and any proposed
7767 addition to, expansion of, or change to an existing solid
7768 mineral mine is exempt from this section. Proposed changes to
7769 any previously approved solid mineral mine development-of-
7770 regional-impact development orders having vested rights is not
7771 subject to [...]

For Immediate Release – April 11, 2011
Contacts:
PERCY ANGELO, SIERRA CLUB FLORIDA PHOSPHATE COMMITTEE, (941) 698-1519
Eric E. Huber, Sierra Club Senior Staff Attorney, (303) 449-5595 ext. 101
FEDERAL COURT OF APPEALS STAYS MOSAIC’S
SOUTH FORT MEADE EXTENSION PERMIT FOR 90 DAYS WHILE SENDING
IT BACK TO DISTRICT COURT FOR FINAL RULING
Atlanta, GA — On April 8, 2011, the U.S. [...]

PLYMOUTH, Minn., April 11, 2011 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ –
The Mosaic Company (NYSE: MOS) announced that the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit has vacated a preliminary injunction previously granted by the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida regarding Mosaic’s South Fort Meade mine. The preliminary injunction had prevented [...]