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....
View ArticleFines, 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...
View ArticleUp 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,...
View ArticleExtreme 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...
View ArticleBaytown 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...
View ArticlePublic 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...
View ArticleOpen 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,...
View ArticleChemical 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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