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Presidential Executive Order — To Improve Chemical Facility Safety and Security

A few months after the deadly explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, President Obama signed an executive order aimed at increasing safety and oversight at chemical plants across the country....

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Fines, Follow Fun Filled Freeze

Remember sitting at home during February 2 of 2011 as the temperatures dropped and the power kept getting turned off. As millions of Texas sat in the cold and dark Luminant, Texas largest power...

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Up to 82,000 Tons of Toxic Coal Ash Spill Into North Carolina River

Duke Energy said on Monday afternoon that between 50,000 to 82,000 tons of coal ash and up to 27 million gallons of water were released from a pond at its retired coal fired power plant in Eden, NC,...

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Extreme Federal Bill Would Sabotage Major Health, Safety Consumer and...

The Coalition for Sensible Safeguards strongly opposes the Regulatory Accountability Act (RAA), which the House passed on Tuesday. They are urging members of Congress to oppose it and The White House...

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Baytown Pipeline Leak Highlights Emergency Alert Challenges

Around 10:10 AM on Sunday July 17th, a pipeline leaked propylene in the community of Baytown, TX, near the ExxonMobil Baytown refinery. Propylene is a dense, colorless gas that is considered non-toxic...

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Public Citizen Honors Tom “Smitty” Smith

Public Citizen Honors Tom “Smitty” Smith   Donate Here After more than three decades of extraordinary work running Public Citizen’s Texas office, “Smitty,” formally known as Thomas Smith, is hanging...

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Open Government, Engaged Citizens: A Conversation on Texas’ Public...

The Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Freedom of Information Foundation of Texas, the Texas Press Association, the Texas Association of Broadcasters and Public Citizen presents Open Government,...

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Chemical Danger: Houston At-Risk For Toxic Exposure

Flares along the Houston Ship Channel during Hurricane Harvey. Public Citizen has been pushing back against the EPA’s rollbacks of the Chemical Disaster Rule. The Chemical Disaster Rule came into...

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