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Pipeline Safety Chief Says His Regulatory Process Is 'Kind of Dying'
2013-09-11 13:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: Jeffrey Wiese, the nation's top oil and gas pipeline safety official, recently strode to a dais beneath crystal chandeliers at a New Orleans hotel to let his audience in on an open secret: the regulatory process he oversees is "kind of dying." Wiese told several hundred oil and gas pipeline compliance officers that his agency, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration [2] (PHMSA), has "very few tools to work with" in enforcing safety rules even after Congress in 2011 allowed it to impose...
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