Environmentalists Make Final Push On RMP Rule But Fear Industry Influence

Environmentalists are pushing to toughen EPA’s final risk management program (RMP) rule in a series of Office of Management and Budget (OMB) meetings while warning that the agency is working too closely with industry on the policy, including one source who says it has shown trade associations the regulation, but not citizen groups. “[I]ndustry seems to know what’s in the final rule,” while environmental groups and fenceline communities that are “the most impacted by the rule” do not, an official...