Explosives Manufacturer Reports Losing Over 30 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate

Explosives Manufacturer Reports Losing Over 30 Tons of Ammonium Nitrate
A Union Pacific train engine sits in a rail yard in Commerce, Calif., on Sept. 14, 2022. Ashley Landis/AP Photo
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Over 30 tons of a chemical used in fertilizer and high explosives went missing from a railcar traveling west from Wyoming to California in April, and investigators still don’t know how it happened.

According to news outlets, on May 10—a month after the incident—explosives manufacturer Dyno Nobel filed a report with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s National Response Center.

Allan Stein
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Allan Stein is a national reporter for The Epoch Times based in Arizona.
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