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 ...

Ammonium nitrate fertilizer, chemically classified as an oxidizer, is commonly used in agriculture and for commercial and residential turf grass. Approximately 7 million tons of ammonium nitrate are ...

A fire at the Weaver Fertilizer Plant in Winston-Salem, N.C. forced 6,500 local residents to evacuate late Monday night and into early Tuesday morning. The lawn and garden fertilizer plant is home to ...

(UPDATE: A 14-member team of the United States Chemical Safety Board has arrived in West, Texas, and will begin to investigate what exactly went wrong.) The explosive chemicals at the West, Texas ...

WASHINGTON -- More than 15 years after a fertilizer bomb was used to blow up a government building in Oklahoma City, killing 168 people, the federal government is proposing to regulate the sale and ...

Thisura Ilukgoda Gedara, a Kansas State University graduate student, samples water from a family’s well in Pratt County, Kansas, in 2024. Nitrate pollution, mostly from chemical fertilizer, has become ...

Explosives in the United States are regulated by the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) in fixed storage and by the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) when in ...

Sentient reports nearly 20% of Americans are drinking nitrate-contaminated water, which poses serious health risks linked to ...

, 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 ...

Austin, Feb. 23, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Ammonium Nitrate Market size was valued at USD 19.43 Billion in 2025 and is projected to reach USD 28.90 Billion by 2033, growing at a CAGR of 5.12% from ...

West-central Illinois farmers say many are using fertilizer more carefully to reduce nitrate runoff, protect drinking water and cut costs.