Substack Daily Updates – 2-20-26

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• OMB Declines Generic CDC Traveler Screening ICR Approval – Looks like rejection of planning for the next pandemic – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/omb-declines-generic-cdc-traveler.html

• Short Takes – 2-20-26 – Federal Register – APHIS Emergency Response ICR – PHMSA pipeline safety advisory – FAA Starship environmental assessment – EPA TCE TSCA rule extension – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/short-takes-2-20-26-federal-register.html

• Chemical Transportation Incidents – Week of 1-17-26 – 387 incidents (349 highway, 36 air, 1 rail, 1 water) – 2 serious incidents (1 evacuation, 1 injury, 3 fire/explosion, 42 no release) – PHMSA DB is again publicly searchable – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/02/chemical-transportation-incidents-week_20.html

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

• I posted the following to a discussion on Mastodon about Musk’s plan to put satellite mass drivers on the Moon: ‘The Moon mass driver idea certainly pre-dated O’Neal (though he certainly provided technical support for the idea), Heinlein used one as a plot driver in “Moon is a Harsh Mistress” in 1966.”