Environmentalists, Industry Draw Lines Over EPA’s Chemical Safety Rule

Environmentalists and industry groups are starting to draw battle lines over how or whether the Biden EPA should revise a Trump-era rule governing chemical facility-safety requirements, with environmentalists urging officials to restore and strengthen the Obama administration’s rule while industry is arguing for retaining the Trump rule. In a July 7 policy brief , three environmental groups call for EPA to not only reverse the Trump administration’s rollback of the Obama-era Risk Management Program (RMP) rule, but to strengthen the...