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On August 6, 2012, a fire and explosion at a Chevron refinery in Richmond, Calif. caused 15,000 people to seek medical treatment. (Nick Fullerton / CC BY-NC 2.0)
Press Release March 6, 2025

Trump Administration Moves to Redo Chemical Disasters Safety Protections, Putting Millions at Risk

Half the U.S. population lives in harm’s way as Trump’s EPA says it’s starting over again on safety
document March 6, 2025

EPA RMP Filing: Unopposed Motion to Hold Cases in Abeyance

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a rulemaking process after corporate lobbyists pressed the agency to dismantle safeguards against chemical disasters.
document January 30, 2025

Industry Letter to Zeldin re SCCAP Rollback

Industry letter to EPA Administrator Zeldin on the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention: Risk Management Program Rule.
The Shell Norco Manufacturing Complex, an oil refinery, is located in Norco, La., 10 miles upriver from New Orleans. (Gerald Herbert / AP)
Press Release March 21, 2024

EPA Closes Emissions Loopholes Abused by Refineries and Chemical Plants

The rule removes loopholes companies used to avoid reporting harmful toxic emissions during force majeure events
Residents observe the fire consuming the TPC Group plant on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in Port Neches, Texas. Two massive explosions 13 hours apart tore through the chemical plant and one left several workers injured. (Marie D. De Jesús / Houston Chronicle via AP)
Article March 6, 2024

The Country’s Deadliest Chemical Plants are Now Required to Prepare for Extreme Weather

A new EPA rule protects nearly 180 million people at risk of chemical disasters.
Residents observe the fire consuming the TPC Group plant on Wednesday, Nov. 27, 2019, in Port Neches, Texas. Two massive explosions 13 hours apart tore through the chemical plant and one left several workers injured. (Marie D. De Jesús / Houston Chronicle via AP)
Press Release: Victory March 1, 2024

EPA Strengthens Chemical Disaster Safeguards

Nearly 180 million people live in the worst-case scenario zones for a chemical disaster
Press Release August 22, 2022

EPA Proposes New Rule to Address Chemical Disasters

Communities facing constant threat of fires and explosions need stronger protection
Press Release March 1, 2022

EPA Should Include Climate Risks in Chemical Facility Safety Rules

New federal watchdog report underscores communities need safeguards from chemical disasters caused by extreme weather
document February 2, 2022

RMP Chemical Disaster Rule Comments (Summer 2021)

The tragic cycle of chemical fires, explosions, and hazardous chemical releases at U.S. industrial facilities must finally end. No massive chemical catastrophe should ever occur. This is what EPA should…
Press Release February 2, 2022

Disaster at Winston-Salem Fertilizer Plant Is Unacceptable, Unnecessary, and Entirely Preventable

The Biden administration and EPA must act now to prevent chemical disasters, a joint statement from Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Center for Progressive Reform, Coming Clean, Earthjustice, Public Citizen,…
document July 7, 2021

Preventing Double Disasters: How the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency can protect the public from hazardous chemical releases worsened by natural disasters

The Center for Progressive Reform, Earthjustice, and the Union of Concerned Scientists issued a joint call for reform in the new policy brief, released one day before the U.S. Environmental…
Press Release July 7, 2021

Organizations Call on EPA to Protect Communities from Climate-Driven Chemical Disasters

Agency must strengthen and adapt Risk Management Program rules to account for more frequent and extreme hurricanes, floods, wildfires
Press Release May 26, 2021

EPA’s New Path to Prevent Chemical Disasters is an Important First Step

Communities facing constant chemical disasters deserve robust protections
An oil refinery looms over the west side of Port Arthur, TX.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 19, 2019

Trump’s EPA Revoked Chemical Disaster Prevention Rules. Now Groups are Suing.

Communities in chemical danger zones fight back against EPA’s latest attack on public health
About 177 million Americans live in the worst-case scenario zones for a chemical disaster.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
Press Release December 19, 2019

Demanda Contra La EPA de Trump Por Revocar Reglas de Prevención de Desastres Químicos

Las comunidades en zonas de peligro químico luchan contra el último ataque de la EPA a la salud pública
An oil refinery looms over the west side of Port Arthur, TX.
(Eric Kayne for Earthjustice)
Press Release November 21, 2019

Trump EPA tries again to kill chemical disaster prevention rules

After earlier court victory, communities in danger zones outraged by EPA’s latest attack on public safety