MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. — Manatee County commissioners recently approved plans to construct a deep injection well at the former Piney Point phosphate processing plant. The more than $9 million project ...

Geoff Abers' commentary "Fracking shakes up the Earth," Jan. 17, was misleading on a couple points. The article opines the state Department of Conservation's draft environmental impact statement ...

MANATEE COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) – As the drainage at Piney Point continues, with millions of gallons of water being pumped out of the reservoir and into Tampa Bay, one engineering solution is picking up ...

The feds recently scrapped the idea of sending stormwater 3,000 feet beneath sea level as a way to deal with heavy rain events and the damaging Lake Okeechobee discharges they ultimately lead to.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' recent decision that it will not consider deep injection wells as one of the possible tools to manage water as part of the ongoing joint Lake Okeechobee Watershed ...