Over the years he has taken cases involving penile implants, Vioxx, drug-coated stents, breast implants, fen-phen, pollution-spewing fertilizer plants, an Alka-Seltzer ingredient and hog farms.

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Three-quarters of the company's sales are of nitrogen fertilizers, and it has a big position in domestic production, with two of the three largest nitrogen fertilizer plants in North America.

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Cost pressures, namely competition from cheaper foreign fertilizer, caused other domestic plants to fold, many in the wake of the natural gas price spike after Hurricane Katrina in 2005.

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Eighty-one Sulabh toilets linked to biogas plants are generating energy and fertilizer, and some systems have health care facilities.

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I've been told that acid-loving plants like gardenias, rhododendrons, things like that, love very acidic fertilizer.

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Safety advocates say fertilizer-storage facilities are lower priorities for regulators than larger polluters, like power plants and refineries.

WSJ: Fertilizer-Storage Risk Is Often Overlooked

Knapp gave him a list of simple innovations to follow things like deeper plowing and better soil preparation, the use of only the best seed, the liberal application of fertilizer, and more thorough cultivation to remove weeds and aerate the soil around the plants.

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