House Bill Seeks Terrorist-Proof Chemicals

Sunday, November 8, 2009 at 12:38PM
Keith Erwood in Chemical, Chemical, Chemical Weapons, Congress, House bill, National Security, National Security, News, Terrorism, Terrorism

The House recently passed legislation giving the government the authority to force companies to replace chemicals that terrorists could use in attacks with safer alternatives.

Chemical-industry lobbyists say mandating substitutions in chemicals and manufacturing processes, as the House measure would do, could cause shortages of some products.

The Senate will be taking up a similar version of the legislation sometime next year.

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