Waxman Plans to Push Safety Legislation.(preventing terrorist attacks against chemical industry)

Chemical Market Reporter, May, 1999 by HESS, GLENN

Congressman seeks to force chemical makers to guard against terrorist threats. REP. HENRY WAXMAN (D-Calif.) is drafting legislation that would require US chemical manufacturers to protect their facilities from possible attacks by terrorists. The issue of plant security surfaced last year when Environmental Protection Agency announced plans to make sensitive "worst-case scenario" information about catastrophic chemical plant accidents available to the public through the Internet.

The agency backed down after the F.B.I. and national security experts warned that such information should be kept off the Internet because it could be used by would-be terrorists to survey possible bombing targets in the US. EPA is still trying to decide how to release...

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