Last week was full of new experiences—I breakfasted, lunched, and walked among a horde of chemical industry representatives.  The event was the Chemical Sector Security Summit , an annual opportunity for chemical industry members...

On June 22, we unmasked Rep. Peter King as a hijacker of chemical security and today we’re unveiling two more: Representative Dan Lungren (R-CA), and Mr. Cal Dooley, CEO of the American Chemistry Council (ACC) . They, like King, are...

A Republican led Congressional committee adopted legislation today pushed by the chemical and oil refining industries that would extend a flawed temporary chemical security law until 2017. The legislation, approved by voice...

Things weren’t looking good yesterday as our team headed to Capitol Hill for the “ markup “ votes on the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Authorization Act of 2012 (H.R. 901) .  Rep. Dan Lungren (R-CA) authored the bill and...

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) is this week’s chemical security hijacker . Collins is pursuing an extension of the fatally flawed Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards (CFATS) without correcting any of its flaws.  CFATS was...