By Rob Thompson
According to the Environmental Protection Agency, there are 700 chemical facilities in the United States that put more than 100,000 people at risk of death or serious injury.
Stephen Flynn with the Council on Foreign Relations recently described the chemical plant threat as “[t]he equivalent of weapons of mass destruction prepositioned in some of the most congested parts of our country.â€
So, five and a half years after the September 11th attacks, what are we doing to improve chemical safety in North Carolina and across the country?