This week I mixed business with pleasure and interviewed crime writer and chemical engineer Fiona Erskine. Fiona is a process-safety champion who’s turned rock into fertilizer, recovered and recycled precious metals, brought medicines to market, made amazing new polymers, exported electricity and directed international construction projects. If you need a break, be sure to listen to the podcast.

Speaking of process safety, we covered the goings on in La Porte, Texas, and the Energy Transfer LNG pipeline fire. We also reported on email phishing threats to critical infrastructure and OT systems.

Lastly, we said goodbye to Richard Ross, former president of Charles Ross & Son Company. Thanks for your contributions to the industry. – Traci Purdum, editor-in-chief.