LOBBYING INTENSIFIES ON PREEMPTION, EPA ROLE IN CHEMICAL SECURITY

Environmentalists, unions and industry officials are stepping up their lobbying ahead of a long-awaited Senate markup this week of a chemical security bill given lingering divisions over what EPA's security role should be, whether federal legislation should preempt stricter state standards and other issues, sources say. The Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee was slated at press time to mark up a bipartisan chemical security bill June 14 introduced by Sens. Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), but...