Substack Daily Updates – 7-22-25

Today I published the following on Chemical Facility Security News:

• Review – Bills Introduced – 7-21-25 – 50 bills – HR 4552, THUD spending – HR 4553, EWR spending – HR 4579, FEMA cybersecurity – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/07/review-bills-introduced-7-21-25.html

• CSB Publishes 3rd Volume of Reported Incident Summaries – 7-21-25 – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/07/csb-publishes-3rd-volume-of-reported.html

• PHMSA Announces Pipeline Safety Priorities -7-22-25 – Guidance for OCS inspection and enforcement activities – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/07/phmsa-announces-pipeline-safety.html

• Review – 6 Advisories and 3 Updates Published – 7-22-25 – NCCIC-ICS control system security advisories for products from Schneider (4), Lantronix, and DuraComm – Updates for products from Schneider (3) – Short version of article published here (premium content) – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/07/review-6-advisories-and-3-updates.html

• Short Takes – 7-22-25 – EOD vs UAS – Starlab – New Vast HQ – AMOC backup current – Atlantic La Nina – Nyx to ISS in 2028 – Starliner update – https://chemical-facility-security-news.blogspot.com/2025/07/short-takes-7-22-25.html

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

• HR 8997 Introduced - FY 2025 EWR Spending,

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

• I posted the following comment to a discussion on Substack Notes about the number of non-votes (7 Republicans and 5 Democrats) in the Senate yesterday on a confirmation vote: “How many were ‘paired votes’? This is where a member who cannot show up for a vote for a legitimate reason gets an opposing member to not vote. Since the two votes would have canceled out each other if both members had voted, this has no real effect on the outcome. This used to be a relatively common practice back when Congress was more congenial and less adversarial.”