Articles tagged: West Fertilizer Company
As Port Neches Plant Smolders, Trump Rolls Back Safety Rules for Chemical Plants
After a deadly explosion in the town of West in 2013, Obama implemented stricter safety rules for chemical plants. Trump’s EPA has just undone them.
Early Wednesday morning, inside a chemical manufacturing complex just southeast of Beaumont, a building erupted in a ball of flames, injuring eight people and s...Read More
West, Texas Blues
Two years after the West fertilizer plant disaster, few ammonium nitrate facilities have made critical changes.
Two years after the West fertilizer plant disaster, few ammonium nitrate facilities have made critical changes....Read More
Nearly Two Years After West Fertilizer Disaster, Lawmakers Finally Consider Changes to Regulatory System
As the second anniversary of the West, Texas fertilizer plant disaster approaches, lawmakers are running out of time to pass legislation addressing the catast...Read More
Observer Radio Episode 54: Lingering Questions From West, Texas
We discuss the one-year anniversary of the West fertilizer plant disaster and what is being done (and not done) to prevent it from happening again....Read More
Recovery: West, Texas Rebuilds
Today is the one-year anniversary of the fertilizer plant explosion in the small town of West, Texas, which killed 15 people and injured an estimated 300....Read More
A Year After West Disaster, Legislators Still Talking About Reform
At a hearing this morning, a House committee considers a set of modest changes to the way Texas oversees fertilizer plants.
As the one-year anniversary of the West fertilizer plant disaster approaches, we’re getting a clearer idea of what the Texas Legislature might do to strengthe...Read More
Inspections Show Texas Fertilizer Plants Still Vulnerable
Nearly a year after the West fertilizer plant explosion, holes in the system that allowed it to happen in the first place have not been addressed. ...Read More
State Agencies Meet Resistance in Policing Fertilizer Industry
In the aftermath of the West, Texas fertilizer disaster, state agencies meet resistance from other fertilizer facilities....Read More
The Lessons from West
I think it’s clear that West wasn’t an unavoidable act of God. It was a man-made industrial crime....Read More