New Jersey is the First State to Mandate Chemical Plant Safety Standards

Are they substantive and useful, or are they just going to make the day-to-day work in plants more difficult? ore often than not, these governmental regualtions provide political cover for politicians at the expense of sensibility.

Do the new regulations make New Jersey less competitive when compared to other states? In other words, would a chemical company in search of a new site now choose some other state over NJ? If this is the case, then the federal government's failure to take the lead forces state government to make the truly hard choices of jobs vs. safety.