Substack Daily Updates – 4-14-26

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Looking Back – 12-1-2009 – Chlorine rail transportation security issues - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/looking-back-12-1-2009_95.html

• Short Takes – 4-14-26 – Federal Register – 2 EPA TSCA related risk assessment notices – STB Ex Parte Communication ANPRM – CEQ NEPA guidance – EPA – PFAS reporting final rule - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/short-takes-4-14-26-federal-register_14.html

• S 3741 Introduced – Biosynthesis Security – Would require DOC to establish customer verification regulations for covered biosynthesis providers - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/s-3741-introduced-biosynthesis-security.html

• HR 7512 Introduced – CWMD Authorization – Clean reauthorization of expired, but still functioning, Office – No new funding authorized - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/hr-7512-introduced-cwmd-authorization.html

Yesterday I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review – Budget hearings start – Space Geet markups – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/review-committee-hearings-week-of-4-12.html

Sunday I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review - Public ICS Disclosures – Week of 4-4-26 – Part 2 – 5 additional vendor disclosures – 2 vendor updates – 3 researcher reports – 1 exploit – Short version of article published here (premium content) - https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2026/04/review-public-ics-disclosures-week-of-4_12.html

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

• Bills Introduced – 2-11-26,

• Bills Introduced – 2-13-26,

• (2021) HR 2236 Introduced – Cyber Shield Act of 2021, and

• (2022) Public ICS Disclosures – Week of 1-1-22 – Part 1.

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

• Typo Definition – Catalot: a really large catalog.

• I posted the following to a discussion on X about the video of the destruction of an unused coker unit at a refinery: “Watching the video with the gas storage tanks in the background.... Must have been an interesting hot-work permit....”

• I posted the following to a discussion on LinkedIn about hazardous materails in unregulated consumer products: “My longtime favorite is phenol. Used in sore-throat sprays to numb the throat. I have handled phenol in truck load quantities, and the safety precautions were way serious, in large part because of the numbing effects.”