Texas News Four Years Later, The Explosion in West, Texas Still Raises More Questions than Answers KWBU | By Texas Standard Published August 2, 2017 at 1:09 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 5:26 A Name Like Shields Can Make You Defensive Follow/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) A fire burns at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas after an explosion Wednesday April 17, 2013 (AP Photo/Michael Ainsworth/The Dallas Morning News) The conversation around chemical safety in fertilizer plants continues to shift, and start dates for new risk management rules have been delayed.
