SENATE GOP SEEKS ENVIRONMENT PANEL OVERSIGHT OF SAFE CHEMICAL ISSUE

Senate Republicans say a Democratic proposal to force the chemical industry to reduce the hazards of its products as part of chemical plant security legislation should fall under the jurisdiction of the Environment & Public Works (EPW) Committee instead of the homeland security panel, an assertion aimed at throwing a procedural roadblock at the contentious proposal. The assertion reflects a strategy by industry and Republican opponents of so-called inherently safer technology (IST) rules to frame the IST proposals as an...