Chemical Facility Security News

Both the Senate and House were in session yesterday and a total of 31 bills were introduced. Four of those bills may be of specific interes...

Yesterday OMB announced that DOT Pipeline and Hazardous Material Safety Administration had submitted a notice of proposed rulemaking for “E...

I read some interesting testimony this weekend from Tod Perlin, Fire Chief from the Town of Rangely, ME. He was one of the US first respon...

The National Transportation Safety Board published a meeting notice in Monday’s Federal Register ( 79 FR 20922-20933 ; available on line to...

Last Friday sixteen Democrats sent a letter to the Senate Appropriations Committee’s Subcommittee on Transportation, Housing and Urban Dev...

Today the Surface Transportation Board (STB) published a meeting notice in the Federal Register ( 79 FR 9587-9588 ) for a meeting of the Ra...

While the House passed a number of non-controversial bills yesterday its members only submitted a small number (13) of new pieces of propos...

Today is the first of a two-day joint public meeting between the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and the Pipeline and Hazardous Mater...

As I noted earlier Sen. Thune (R,SD) introduced S 1462 the  Railroad Safety and Positive Train Control Extension Act . This bill would ame...

Late this afternoon the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) published an emergency order to Prevent Unintended Hazardous Materials Train...