Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–August 6, 2013. On August 1, as President Obama signed an Executive Order, entitled Improving Chemical Facility Safety and Security, intended to improve chemical facility safety and security, a coalition of labor and environmental groups delivered a letter to newly appointed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Gina McCarthy, urging her to make chemical disaster prevention one of the priority initiatives in her first 100 days in office. The letter and Executive Order come nearly four months after an explosion at a chemical plant in West, Texas claimed the lives of 14 people and injured hundreds more.
