US Homeland Security wants high-risk chemical plants to adopt 'safer' technologies

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Washington-The Obama administration wants the authority to require chemical plants deemed at high risk of terrorist attack to adopt "safer" technologies, an administration official told a US Senate panel March 3.The administration plans to submit its own version of a chemical facility bill that would include the standard of "inherently safer technology"-a requirement the industry says would be costly and burdensome and eventually lead to plant closings.