Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports ...

OPELIKA, Ala. (WRBL) – Opelika Police, Fire and Lee County emergency management are working to mitigate a nitric acid spill at the UPS facility located on Fox Rd., Parkway in Opelika. One employee ...

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) — An emergency alert was sent out just after 1 p.m. Tuesday after a chemical leak was reported just east of downtown. According to the Fort Wayne Fire Department, roughly 350 ...

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Modern fertilizer manufacturing uses the Haber-Bosch and Ostwald processes to fix aerial nitrogen as ammonia, then oxidize the ammonia to nitric acid. Having already created a Haber-Bosch reactor for ...

MIDWAY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A formal investigation has officially been launched months after the U.S. Nitrogen plant in Greene County experienced a malfunction upon startup and released plumes of nitric ...

VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WSYX) — The Austin Powder Company, who says they are a global leader in explosives and blasting solutions, is facing scrutiny after a nitric acid leak at its Red Diamond plant.

An orange cloud rises from the Austin Powder plant near Zaleski, Ohio, caused by a chemical leak that resulted in an evacuation of the surrounding area for much of Wednesday. Parts of Vinton County in ...

A nitric acid leak at the Austin Powder Plant in Vinton County, Ohio, led to emergency evacuations Wednesday morning. Hundreds of residents in the Village of Zaleski and nearby areas were ordered to ...