One of Mosaic's core values is to create enriched communities wherever we maintain operations. In support of this commitment, Mosaic and our employees are contributing over $3.4 million to United Way agencies serving in our operating areas this year - more than $2.1 million in Florida alone.

Yes.  Mosaic is committed to meeting financial responsibility requirements on a federal, state and local level. There are multiple, often overlapping, financial responsibility mechanisms in place to ensure safety of our operations and completion of reclamation. In addition, since 1971 the industry has paid more than $1.95 billion in severance taxes. Since 1979, the Conservation and Recreation Lands Trust Fund (CARL) has received more than $530 million of these severance tax dollars.

In the past few years, financial rules and statutes regulating the phosphate industry have increased the severance tax rate, penalties for misrepresentation, stringency tests and assurances for wetlands mitigation.  The industry is now paying a tax of $3.325 per ton of phosphate rock severed. Individual phosphate industry employees can be fined $50,000 and go to jail for five years for each offense if they misrepresent their company's financial condition or fail to comply with department rules.