Environmentalists Ramp Up Advocacy To Strengthen EPA’s RMP Plan

Correction Appended As EPA prepares to hold a series of public meetings later this month to take comment on its proposed facility safety risk management program (RMP) rule, environmentalists are ramping up their efforts to get EPA to strengthen the measure, charging it does not go far enough to prevent chemical releases. Among other things, environmentalists are pressing officials to go further in taking environmental justice (EJ) issues into account and require the adoption of safer chemical alternatives, rather...