west fertilizer plant explosion

The EPA is scaling back chemical plant safety measures that were put in place after a Texas fertilizer plant explosion in 2013 that killed 15 people.

Investigators announced Wednesday that the fire that ultimately led to the explosion of the West Fertilizer plant was "incendiary in nature" and a criminal act.

DALLAS (AP) — A former Texas paramedic faces sentencing on charges that he tried to assemble a pipe bomb, in a case unrelated to the fertilizer plant blast that devastated his town.

Texas Governor Rick Perry says the Federal Emergency Management Agency has reversed an earlier denial of aid to the city of West. FEMA has approved additional funding to help in the recovery process after the explosion of the West Fertilizer Plant in April...

DALLAS (AP) — Leaders of a Texas town devastated by a fertilizer plant explosion are trying to ensure the future of their schools as they struggle to recover from the disaster. The April 17 blast in West, Texas, killed 15 people and heavily damaged hundreds of buildings, including three of the town's four schools...

WEST, Texas (AP) — Experts say it's now safe to drink water from all public supplies in a Central Texas town decimated nearly three months ago by a deadly fertilizer plant blast. City officials in West on Tuesday rescinded the public boil water notice...

RAMIT PLUSHNICK-MASTI,Associated Press HOUSTON (AP) — The Federal Emergency Management Agency is refusing to provide money to help rebuild the small Texas town where a deadly fertilizer plant explosion leveled numerous homes and a school, and killed 15 people...