Substack Daily Updates – 1-21-26

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review – Bills Introduced – 1-20-26 – Bills Introduced –1-20-26 – 23 bills – HR 7147 and HR 7148, final spending bills – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-bills-introduced-1-20-26-bills.html

• Review – 9 recommendations updated to ‘closed’ – 1 updated to “Open – Acceptable Response or Alternate Response” – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/01/review-csb-updated-status-of-10.html

I have removed the following articles from the CFSN Detailed Analysis paywall:

• CSB Updated the Status of 12 Incident Recommendations – 12-4-25,

I posted the following to my social media feeds (X, Mastodon, Substack, and LinkedIn):

• I posted the following to a discussion on Mastodon about donating used books to libraries: “I remember as a kid looking forward to the annual Cupertino public Library used book sale, where they sold donated books to provide acquisition funds. A large portion of my early library consisted of books from those sales.”

• I posted the following to a discussion on Mastodon about an ICE no-drone-fly-zone: “But we cannot get permission to protect chemical facilities with potential mass-casualty chemical storage from UAS flights. Something is wrong with priorities here.”