Homeland Security Drafts Tighter Chemical Manufacturing Regulations
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By Katy Stech, The Post and Courier, Charleston, S.C.  Feb. 4--The homeland security spotlight has shifted to the nation's  15,000 chemical manufacturing plants, including the dozen or so in the  Charleston region.
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A month after a new U.S. law  encouraging the development of medicines to counter  bioterrorism, some drugmakers are lobbying for more incentives  to make products that may never be used.
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WASHINGTON - After years of favoring the hands-off doctrine of the Bush administration, some of the nation's biggest industries are pushing for something they have long resisted: new federal regulations.
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The Bush administration announced new rules Thursday to allow U.S. farmers who grow tomatoes, strawberries and other crops to continue using methyl bromide, an ozone-depleting pesticide that had been scheduled to be phased out worldwide next year.
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Sep. 7--Illinois is taking the fight against methamphetamines to the manufacturing level with a grant program meant to heighten security and safety measures at anhydrous ammonia facilities.
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For months, homeland security officials have privately debated how to blunt criticism of their planned aviation screening system that passengers and airlines complained was overly intrusive.-The Washington Post
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By Levine, Art  Lax security at our nation's chemical plants may endanger the millions of Americans unlucky enough to live near them, but it's been a boon for investigative journalism.
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Regulatory hurdles still to be jumped
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New rules that will require the scanning of all cargo containers imported to the United States, a move to stop nuclear weapons being shipped in, are expensive, unnecessary and misguided, industry and security experts said.
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U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered tougher oversight of private guards in Iraq, including tighter rules on the use of force, following deadly shootings involving U.S. security contractor Blackwater.
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Security concerns are preventing fuel and other goods from leaving a key port.
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By Carol Eisenberg, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Jun. 13--WASHINGTON -- Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff   yesterday urged operators of water and waste treatment plants to secure chemicals such as chlorine from terrorists, although they're not required to do so.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday ordered tougher oversight of private guards in Iraq, including tighter rules on the use of force, following deadly shootings involving U.S. security contractor Blackwater.
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By The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 18--DEFENSE SECRETARY Robert Gates has upped the ante for demilitarizing chemical weapons at Pueblo Chemical Depot and Blue Grass Army Depot in Kentucky.   Last week Sen. Wayne Allard said Mr.
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A type of nanotechnology used in a wide range of consumer products to kill germs will be regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency as part of a change in federal policy.
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By John Norton, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Dec. 8--With work finally moving forward on Pueblo's chemical demilitarization program, $46.2 million in contracts have been awarded this year through the end of November, much of it to local firms.
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The Department of Homeland Security and the FBI agree that the homemade explosive devices that have wreaked havoc in Iraq pose a rising threat to the United States. But lawmakers and first responders say the Bush administration has been slow to devise a strategy for countering the weapons and has...