Muscle Shoals Environmental Research Center, Alabama

The Muscle Shoals Environmental Research Center (also known as the TVA  Environmental Research Center) is an environmental research and development installation operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, specializing in industrial agriculture and remediation sciences, including clean-up at military installations. Until the 1970s, when the facility's name was changed from the National Fertilizer Development Center, three-quarters of the synthetic fertilizers in use in the United States were developed here, with the cooperation of universities and the petrochemical industry. The facility was established at this location to take advantage of the buildings and infrastructure already in place from a World War One-era munitions plant, and of power and water provided by the TVA.