House Democrats have put language in their war-spending bill that may reignite a fight over how best to secure chemical and petrochemical plants from terrorist attacks. Industry lobbyists say the $124 ...

Federal officials have known for years that terrorists could use methods as dramatic as an aircraft attack or as mundane as a false shipping order to kill thousands of people and terrorize millions ...

WASHINGTON — Hundreds of petrochemical facilities operate along the Houston Ship Channel, holding a smorgasbord of toxic chemicals such as chlorine and hydrogen cyanide that if released in significant ...

CHICAGO -- Exelon Corp. said Friday it will replace Wackenhut Corp. with an in-house security force at its 10 nuclear power plants following the discovery earlier this year that guards at a ...

"At this point, it's not realistic to expect that a permanent authorization bill will pass Congress by the end of September," Holly Idelson told 400 chemical company security managers and government ...

The first hint of trouble would probably be no more than shadows flitting through the darkness outside one of the nation’s nuclear power reactors. Beyond the fencing, black-clad snipers would take ...

According to ARC Advisory Group Inc., in Dedham, Mass., the conflict between the plant and the information technology (IT) group stems from a long list of conflicting missions, systems and priorities.

Bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate on Dec. 19 would require the federal government to set minimum mandatory security requirements for thousands of chemical plants nationwide. "This bill ...