Texas Fire Marshal Preaches Safety and Training After Fertilizer Plant Blast December 30, 2013 By NOMAAN MERCHANT When a fertilizer plant exploded in a small Texas town, killing 15 people and decimating homes and schools, it became...
Dewhurst Orders Reviews Following West Explosion November 22, 2013 By CHRIS TOMLINSON Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has ordered Texas senators to review safety regulations and emergency response procedures in the aftermath of...
University of Texas Chemical Safety Program to Lose Funding August 13, 2013 Months after a fertilizer plant explosion in Central Texas killed 15 people, including 10 first responders, officials at a university-based...
Order to Tighten Chemical Safety After Blasts Issued August 1, 2013 By Roger Runningen President Barack Obama issued an executive order aimed at reducing risks that hazardous chemicals pose to workers and communities, citing...
Texas Has Not Surveyed Injuries From Plant Blast July 30, 2013 More than three months after a Texas fertilizer plant exploded killing 15 people and hurting hundreds, the state still has...
Texas Mutual Donates to IIAT Foundation to Assist West, Texas Victims July 2, 2013 Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that it is donating $5,234 toward the Independent Insurance Agents of Texas (IIAT) Trusted Choice...
Texas Lawmakers: Put Dangerous Chemical Site Info Online June 19, 2013 By WILL WEISSERT There are 16 fertilizer production sites in Texas like the one that exploded in West, but authorities aren’t clear how...
Texas Law Change Would Allow Reappraisals After Disaster June 4, 2013 Hundreds of property owners whose homes and businesses were damaged by the earth-rattling fertilizer plant explosion that devastated the town...
Help Could Be Available for Uninsured West Losses May 22, 2013 Disaster help may be available for losses not covered by insurance in a Central Texas town recovering from a fertilizer...
Lawyer: Texas Paramedic Denies Explosives Charge May 14, 2013 By Paul J. Weber and Christopher Sherman A Texas paramedic arrested on charges of possessing bomb-making material will plead not guilty and had no connection to a...