Barbara Boxer

The mounting costs of carbon pollution on society is a market failure.

Coal and oil are not 'cheap' energy as they are causing catastrophic damage to this planet.

The only way to establish a Palestinian state and resolve all permanent-status issues is through the crucial work of direct negotiations between the parties.

We are not stopping until we make positive reforms that will make the likelihood of this far less than it is today.

I do not agree with that at all. If this can cause multiple deaths, it does not bother me that a couple of health and safety agencies have similar laws on the books.

If OSHA had some competent inspector who had gone there on a regular basis and made that enforcement, yes, they would have looked at that.

Thank you for taking action to protect my constituents. And clearly you just cannot sit back and wait for EPA.

I am going to be working with you much more than you would like.

I feel that EPA has to step up to the plate here and do a lot more.

How many more accidents does it take before you issue an alert or a guidance on storage?

What about the fact that in 2012, labor, health and environmental justice groups petitioned EPA to use the Clean Air Act Section 112 rulemaking authority and the General Duty Clause to require facilities that handle dangerous chemicals to…

You are my heroes in this. And please do exactly what you are doing, get to the bottom of this, and do not be afraid to say what you believe.

Well, it would be nice if the EPA did a little bit of consulting with OSHA and their alert could update, update their alert to state that OSHA has this regulation.

You have not issued an alert since 1997. Do you not think it would be a good thing since we have now seen what has happened?

I am sympathetic to the fact that there is work to be done. I am unsympathetic to the attitude that I hear, which is the lack of urgency, because lives are being lost and recommendations were made a long time ago and nothing is happening.

The bottom line is, as I read it, and I have got your report here, I am going to put it into the record, to EPA you say revise the accidental release prevention requirements to explicitly cover catastrophic reactive hazards that have the…

I am asking you, is it time for the EPA to adopt this recommendation that was made in 2002 given the tragedies that have occurred since then?

I do not sense in your voice any type of shock or desire to use your authority to move forward.

I mean, I do agree with Mr. Mannan that you have to enforce.

Thank you. It was very well said.

Some of these will need legislation but a lot of them can be done without legislation.

Federal safety and health officials must use all of their available tools, including, and most important, updated risk management plans which are required under the law.

If I am the relative sitting here, I am thinking OK, that is vague. What is your timeframe, what do you want to do?

We must look at why these tragedies and others occur and what we can do to help prevent such disasters in the future.

Let us fix it. And you have the tools, sir, and we are going to work with you and if we have to against you.