Ammonium nitrate, which Lebanese authorities have said caused the devastating Beirut blast, is an odorless crystalline substance commonly used as a fertilizer and has caused numerous industrial ...

More than 12 years after Timothy J. McVeigh used ammonium nitrate fertilizer to blow up the Oklahoma City federal building, Congress quietly passed legislation this month to regulate sales of the ...

, you know that non-explosive nitrogen fertilizer alternatives are rapidly overtaking its market. Lawsuits aimed at CF Industries, one of the nation’s two ammonium nitrate fertilizer makers, accuse ...

WEST (CBS 11 NEWS) - Investigators have now ruled what many have suspected: the ammonium nitrate stored at the West Fertilizer Company's plant exploded. But the 29 state and federal agencies involved ...

SAN ANTONIO — Investigators have determined that ammonium nitrate was the cause of the explosion at a West,Texas, fertilizer plant last month that left 14 people dead and about 200 injured, a ...

Maybe you garden and know all about fertilizer. But if not, you need to know that fertilizer can be from a multitude of mixes of different chemicals. But the one fertilizer that has caused ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 27, 2016 – The Occupational Safety and Health Administration and EPA need to tighten their standards for ammonium nitrate, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) said in its report on the ...

WERE DEALING WITH AND HOW MUCH. >> WINSTON-SALEM FIRST RESPONDERS ARE NOW AT WEAVER FERTILIZER PLANT AFTER THE FIRE ERUPTED THERE MONDAY NIGHT. >> LOUIS TRAN WAS AT THIS AFTERNOON’S PRESS CONFERENCE ...

In the days after the West Fertilizer Co. plant exploded, the Office of the Texas State Chemist released a somewhat alarming figure: West was just one of nearly 600 fertilizer businesses in the state.

A week after federal authorities rejected the city of West’s request for funds to rebuild schools and infrastructure damaged in the April 17 explosion, the city filed a lawsuit against West Fertilizer ...

Fireworks and ammonium nitrate appear to have been the fuel that ignited a massive explosion that rocked the Lebanese capital of Beirut, experts and videos of the blast suggest. The scale of the ...