Greg Abbott is the GOP candidate running against Wendy Davis in Texas. He is also the current state Attorney General. Remember the fertilizer plant explosion that killed more than dozen people in Texas in 2011? It seems Koch Fertilizer Industries has invested at least $75,000 in Abbotts campaign. And now it seems that a Federally mandated Tier II report (a chemical inventory list) is no longer available - although it was formerly available to the public upon request via the State Department of Health Services, until a few weeks ago. Thats when Attorney General Greg Abbott blocked the list. He cited a state law prohibiting the release of chemical inventories for Homeland Security reasons... Tuesday in Austin, Abbott set the record straight and assured the media that Tier II chemical inventories are still accessible by the public. You, as a community member of this state, can go to any chemical facility in the entire state of Texas and say, Identify for me all chemical you have on your facility, he said. And you are entitled to get that information. And while state officials cant release Tier II lists, Abbott says the public can still go knock on chemical company doors and ask..... Yeah, right. So this TV station tried 2 different chemical companies. Guess what happened...............? wfaa/news/investigates/Texas-AG-tells-citizens-to-get-chemical-lists-from-businesses-not-the-state-265620211.html
Posted on: Thu, 03 Jul 2014 04:46:55 +0000