EPA Eases Safety Requirements Enacted after Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion November 22, 2019 By Kiah Collier, The Texas Tribune Days before President Barack Obama left office in 2017, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule aimed at preventing...
West, Texas, Accepts $10.4M Settlement in 2013 Fertilizer Plant Blast Suit January 26, 2018 A Central Texas town devastated by a 2013 fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people, many of them emergency personnel,...
ATF: 2013 Fire at Texas Fertilizer Plant Intentionally Set May 11, 2016 By Stephanie K. Jones The Houston Field Division of the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) says the fire that caused...
Safety Laws Still Lacking a Year After Texas Plant Blast April 23, 2014 By Nomaan Merchant It has been a year since a fire caused a huge explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant that killed 15...
On Anniversary of Texas Fertilizer Explosion, Families Seek Balance April 17, 2014 By Nomaan Merchant Families of the 15 people killed in a massive explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant have spent the year since...
West Fertilizer Investigators: Ammonium Nitrate Detonated in Explosion May 7, 2013 While the investigation into the origin and cause of the West Fertilizer Plant fire and explosion in West, Texas, is...
Inquiry Into Texas Blast Plagued by Regulatory Gap April 30, 2013 By Jack Gillum and Ramit Plushnick-Masti Federal and state officials investigating the April 17 deadly blast at a Central Texas fertilizer company are trying to determine...