KENAI -- Agrium inc. is bringing its Nikiski fertilizer plant back on line this week after taking the winter off for lack of natural gas, company officials said Monday. Agrium spokeswoman Lisa Parker said the company again has access to sufficient gas and will reopen one ammonia and one urea plant -- returning to half-capacity production -- within a week. Already operating at half capacity, it closed in late October as winter gas demand from Southcentral Alaska utilities picked up. The...

Should public and private colleges in Missouri do criminal background checks on all faculty and staff before hiring? Yes, it's a no-brainer. The feed was contaminated with melamine, which is commonly used in plastics and fertilizers. No, even convicted criminals have a right to build a new life. The USDA estimates that about six-thousand-hogs in several states may have also eaten the tainted food. It's unclear how many animals raised on those farms may have entered the food supply. Yes,...

Plymouth, Norfolk and Middlesex counties have already started using helicopters to apply mosquito pesticides, and Bristol County will follow suit next month, said Priscilla Matton, an entomologist wetlands coordinator for the Bristol County Mosquito Control Project. Plymouth, Norfolk and Middlesex counties have already started using helicopters to apply mosquito pesticides, and Bristol County will follow suit next month, said Priscilla Matton, an entomologist wetlands coordinator for the...

The men, all British citizens, were accused of plotting a series of attacks using more than 1,300 pounds of fertilizer they had placed in a storage unit. LONDON A judge sentenced five men to life in prison Monday for plotting to attack targets in London, including a popular nightclub, power plants and shopping mall, with bombs made from a half-ton stockpile of fertilizer. As agents monitoring the fertilizer plot listened in on a bug, they heard one of the July 7 bombers, Mohammed Siddique...

Vegetables are good for you, yet vegetables make toxic chemicals to keep off insects, so every vegetable is 5 percent of its weight in toxic chemicals. Ames laughs at the claims of chemically induced cancers, and he should know-he's the one who invented the test that first frightened people about a lot of those chemicals. ABC News: John Stossel's 'Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity' Good Morning America. AMES No, absolutely not, because the amount of pesticide residues-man-made pesticide...