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Texas Pulp and Paper Mill Report
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Letter to the Editor: Congress should allow Texas to set chemical plant safety protections
- Laredo Morning Times
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An important but overlooked issue in the homeland security spending bill currently before Congress is whether states can regulate chemical plant safety and security. Nationwide, more than 15,000 chemical plants store dangerous quantities of highly toxic chemicals that, if released, could kill or seriously injure thousands. |
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Despite government and media spotlights on the danger to health posed by industrial emissions of cancer-causing air toxics in the Houston area, a potentially deadly class of industrial chemicals continues to be used in numerous plants here. |
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Editorial: Time to pass strong chemical plant law
- San Antonio Express-News
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U.S. chemical plants are widely recognized as possible targets for terrorists...But Congress has been dragging its feet for years on legislation that would beef up security and safety requirements for chemical plants.
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