Like certain politicians, some government agencies just have no shame. Despite widespread condemnation by fire investigation experts and the citizens…

The Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire raises difficult questions on our failure to issue adequate regulatory protections for workers and communities…

In a stinging rebuke to the Environmental Protection Agency, a federal court has called EPA’s delay in implementing the Obama…

Five years after a catastrophic ammonium nitrate explosion in West, Texas killed 15 persons, destroyed much of the city, and…

Dan Zak of the Washington Post has written a long feature article on the impact and aftermath of the West…

Sometimes blogging is like shouting into the wind. All you hear are echos of your own voice. Then silence. But,…

But as the ….government has promoted the [chemical] sector’s rapid growth, it has struggled with its impact on the environment.…

Chemical industry representatives are using unproven allegations that a criminal act caused the catastrophic 2013 West Texas explosion to try…