AP: Some Facilities Keep Explosive Chemicals Secret from Community
Following last April’s deadly explosion of ammonium nitrate at the West Fertilizer Co. in West, Texas, reporters from The Associated Press have found that 120 facilities housing or processing hazardous materials are located within a “potentially devastating blast zone of schoolchildren, the elderly and the sick.”
However, those records were only available for 28 states – more than a half-dozen others, including Ohio, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho and South Carolina, refused to provide the information, citing the risk of terrorist attacks and their interpretations of federal law.