Editorial: The Risk From Chemical Plants

New York Times May 3, 2012 More than a decade after 9/11, thousands of facilities that produce, store or use highly toxic chemicals remain vulnerable to a terrorist attack or accident that could kill or injure hundreds of thousands of people living downwind of an explosion. A Congressional Research Service report identifies 483 facilities in 43 states where a chemical disaster would put 100,000 or more people at risk. [...]

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Christine Todd Whitman’s View From the Middle

April 25, 2012 Christine Todd Whitman knows well the view from the middle. A moderate Republican, Whitman was elected New Jersey’s first female governor in 1994. In 2001, she was appointed administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George W. Bush, but she left just two years later after conflicts with what she later described as a divisive political structure. [...]

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Governors Rendell and Whitman on Election 2012: It’s been a shameful clown show

By NCC Staff National Constitution Center/Constitution Daily April 6, 2012 Today at the National Constitution Center, former Governors Ed Rendell and Christine Todd Whitman offered contrasting perspectives and firsthand knowledge of Election 2012′s key players and issues. David Eisner, president and CEO of the National Constitution Center, moderated. [...]

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