Mississippi Phosphates Pascagoula Site, Mississippi

Scattered around the country are a number of former phosphate plants in limbo, or orphaned in decay, like the Mississippi Phosphates company site in Pascagoula, Mississippi. Diammonium phosphate fertilizer was produced here from the 1950s to 2014, when the company went bankrupt. A $12 million fund that had been set aside to address the remediation quickly ran out. Two phosphogypsum stacks ceased to be managed, and millions of gallons of acidic liquid wastes flowed into the bay. The site now has superfund status, and the state and the EPA are addressing it.