WEST, Texas McLennan County officials did not follow federal regulations requiring public officials to plan for a major chemical incident such as last week's deadly fertilizer plant explosion in West, ...

HOUSTON (AP) – The Environmental Protection Agency has displayed a lack of urgency in the wake of a deadly Texas fertilizer plant explosion and must regulate potentially explosive chemicals ...

When we think of dangerous explosives, we imagine military bunkers and high-security labs. But the bomb that ripped through Delhi's Red Fort area last Monday, killing ten innocent people, was likely ...

QUESTION: Can the ammonium nitrate in that train wreck explode like a bomb? ANSWER: You must be referring to the train-truck collision near Nelson in Buffalo County that occurred on May 17. According ...

A person with a dark baseball cap stands near several bombed-out vehicles cordoned off by red, yellow, and blue police tape. An investigator examines the blast site left after a car carrying 30–40 ...

WEST, Texas (AP) – When they saw 30-foot flames licking the sky inside a massive fertilizer plant, firefighters in this tiny Texas town rushed to evacuate nearby buildings and raced to spray water on ...

A rusting cargo ship carrying 2,750 tons of ammonium nitrate was seized in Beirut and then effectively abandoned, leaving one of the most dangerous cargos on Earth sitting in a warehouse for years.

Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...