Chemical Facility Security News

Last week the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released their final report [.PDF download] on the Arkema chemical facility fire that occurre...

Earlier this week there was a significant fire at a chemical facility in Duson, LA (according to the company web site the location is ac...

It looks like this organic peroxide plant situation will be continuing news. It seems that late last night there were two ‘explosions’ at ...

Earlier this week the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) announced that it was sending an investigation team to the site of a major chemical rele...

This is part of a continuing series of blog posts about the EPA’s recently published notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for revisions of...

This is part of a continuing series of blog posts about the EPA’s recently published notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) for revisions of...

The Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) published a meeting notice in today’s Federal Register ( 81 FR 3780 ) for a public...

Yesterday the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs announced that it had received from the EPA a notice of proposed rulemaki...

Friday afternoon there was a fire at a chemical facility in Conroe, TX. The facility was a supplier of drilling chemicals for the oil field...

As part of their ongoing efforts to comply with the President’s executive order on chemical safety and security ( EO 13650 ) OSHA has updat...

Yesterday the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) posted a request for information to the FedBizOps.Gov web site to suppo...

There has been an interesting undercurrent in the EO 13650 Working Group about the inevitable discussions about inherently safer technology...

When I wrote my blog post this weekend proposing an alternative to S 1961, Sen. Manchin’s (D,WV) chemical storage bill, I greatly reduced t...

It took over a week for a set of legislators to come up with a knee jerk reaction to the chemical spill and water system closure incident i...