Between 1990-1995, 600 companies from 44 different states sent 270 million pounds of toxic waste to farms and fertilizer companies across the country.

His father owned a fertilizer company, which Milchan turned into a successful chemical business.

The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.

He also ran a very successful fertilizer company and became quite wealthy.

Until last year, fertilizer companies experimented with using their wastes as landfill for building roads.

When he was 19, breaking slabs of concrete in 100-degree heat for a fertilizer company near Fresno, his father got a tip.

He then moved on to other things, investing in businesses from radio stations to fertilizer companies to rail cars.

Mr. Scott graduated from an agricultural college in Australia, then worked for a fertilizer company.

The fertilizer companies say the soil is too unstable to continue storing gypsum waste on land.

Doucet was personnel director for a fertilizer company before founding his own company in 1976.