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Is the Department of Homeland Security Equipped to Handle High-Risk Chemical Facilities?

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Pallets of 155 mm artillery shells containing "HD" (1) mustard gas at Pueblo chemical weapons storage facility in Colorado state, USA. Note the highly distinctive color coding scheme. The USA has been steadily destroying its entire stockpile of chemical weapons and will continue to do so until none remain. photo: Wikimedia Commons

Former Bush EPA chief sounds alarm on chemical security by Jim Morris for iWatch News Wading into a decade-old controversy, former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman has urged current EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to close loopholes in a [...]

Regulatory Neglect: 255 Hazardous Pollutants Wait To Be Profiled by EPA

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Eighteen months after the Environmental Protection Agency announced reforms to its controversial process for evaluating health hazards posed by dangerous chemicals, significant problems continue to hamper the program and leave the public at risk, according to a new report by a nonprofit research group.