U.S. Speeds to Stop Terror as Texas Blast Safety Ignored
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Political labels fell aside after the Boston Marathon bombing that killed three as Americans “united in concern for our fellow citizens,” said President Barack Obama, a Democrat. House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, urged the country to “come together with grace and strength.”
Yet while terrorism galvanizes top federal officials to move to prevent future attacks, industrial safety gets less attention -- even after 14 died in a Texas fertilizer-plant explosion April 17, two days after the Boston bombing. Lawmakers in Congress have just started to investigate the Texas deaths while state officials defend their regulation of chemical facilities.