Chemical Transportation and Plant Security
Senator Markey has been an active, persistent proponent of stronger security safeguards for all chemical plant facilities and transportation infrastructure.
Everett, Massachusetts is the site of the first liquefied natural gas (LNG) importation terminal in the United States and the only LNG terminal in the country that is located in an urban area. As the author of the 1979 law regulating remote LNG siting, Senator Markey is keenly aware of the dangers posed by a possible terrorist attack on an LNG facility or transportation vessel.
Since 2004, Senator Markey has offered legislation to require the use of cost-effective safer chemicals and processes at chemical facilities in order to reduce the consequences of a terrorist attack. The chemical industry has vigorously opposed these efforts, supporting exemptions for thousands of facilities that contain toxic chemicals from having to comply with even the inadequate law on the books. In the House of Representatives, Markey led negotiations on comprehensive chemical security legislation that closed the loopholes and gave the federal government the tools it needed to keep these facilities safe.
- Markey, Blumenthal, Rockefeller Call On Coast Guard To Make Cruise Ship Inspection Information Available To Public Posted on 05/09/14
- Senators to NRC: Do Not Exempt Decommissioning Nuclear Reactors from Emergency Response and Security Measures Posted on 05/02/14
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Members of Mass. Delegation: Do Not Relicense Seabrook Nuclear Plant For Another 20 Years While Concrete Degradation Testing Is Incomplete Posted on 12/18/13
Senator Edward J. Markey, joined by Senator Elizabeth Warren, and Representatives John F. Tierney, James P. McGovern, Stephen F. Lynch, William R. Keating, Niki Tsongas, and Joseph P. Kennedy today sent a letter to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) recommending the agency make no decision on the June 2010 request by Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant licensee NextEra Energy Seabrook to relicense the power plant for another 20 years that would begin in 2030.
Read More - Markey and Sanders Warn: Nuclear Dont Ask Dont Tell Policy Endangering Public Safety Posted on 11/14/13
- Markey: Did Exxon Use Unapproved Response Plan in Arkansas Spill? Posted on 06/14/13
- Markey Statement on 11th Anniversary of 9/11 Attacks Posted on 09/11/12
- Markey Calls On Obama to Issue Executive Order on Cybersecurity Posted on 08/08/12