Texas On Fire, Again and Again by Bill Minutaglio. The New York Times. April 19, 2013.
Texas has a long and proudly-upheld history of pushing back against government regulation. The West fertilizer disaster is placed into context with the 1947 Texas City Disaster which killed 600 with 5,000 injured. Both stem from what the author believes is a "pathological avoidance of oversight" in Texas. Will there be change? A quote from the state attorney general gives a clue: "I go into the office in the morning, I sue Barack Obama, and then I go home."
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