Actions have always been influenced by politics and consensus. It’s much easier to sort out right and wrong when hindsight is 20/20 and situational ethics having been exposed for what they are. But passions run deep and old ways are hard to change. We also don’t like our dirty laundry aired to the world, even when it’s for our own good.
Read More The Department of Transportation issued a series of new rules this spring governing the transportation of propane.
Read More The U.S. Department of Transportation has proposed dismantling the Research & Special Programs Administration and moving the Office of Pipeline Safety into the Federal Railroad Administration – an agency familiar with hazmat transportation – as a result of heightened security fears.
Read More Pipeline regulation will get somewhat more stringent over the next fouryears. Congress has approved the Pipeline Infrastructure Protection toEnhance Security & Safety Act of 2002, which both provides more oversightpower and more research on further safety through 2006.
Read More Many times managers view the issue of safety through rose-coloredglasses. What we can’t see often looks pretty good, in a compromising sortof way.
Read More Pipeline operators may soon be required to guard against terrorist attacks as well as leaks and spills.
Read More Everyone agrees on the need to improve hazardous material transportation security in the wake of September 11. But ensuring that changes actually make an impact is much more difficult than grasping at the first legislative, regulatory, or policy solution, or buying the latest piece of technology that promises safety miracles.
Read More The Office of Pipeline Safety continues to evaluate risk and explore ways to protect pipelines from becoming weapons against the United States.
Read More Should ground transportation law be rewritten to consider protecting fuel from terrorist attack? Or should the government back off from regulating the trucking industry? An already hectic Congress just had these issues dumped in its lap.
Read More Airborne fuel caused the Sept. 11 conflagrations that shocked the United States. But while airline safety gets a public upgrade, could the next terrorist strike hit fuel at ground level or underground?
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