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Chemical incidents continue to occur every other d Chemical incidents continue to occur every other day on average in the United States. At least 215 dangerous chemical incidents, including fires, explosions, and toxic releases occurred in 2025, as documented by the Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters; at least 66 incidents occurred last year at facilities regulated by the Risk Management Program. “This proposed rule is a direct assault on safety and a political gift to polluters,” said Ana Parras, Executive Director of Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services (T.e.j.a.s) “For fenceline communities and facility workers, this rollback is a declaration that our lives are deemed acceptable sacrifices. By ripping away the requirement for safer technologies, the administration is actively increasing the threat of explosions and toxic releases - preventable disasters that will deepen environmental injustice for generations." “There have been over 1300 chemical incidents, dozens of lives lost, and hundreds of communities evacuated since 2020. During that time, our communities have participated in lengthy regulatory processes, going through the right channels, to win stronger regulations for the country’s most hazardous facilities,” said Beto Lugo-Martinez, executive director of RiSE4EJ, citing the Chemical Incident Tracker. “This administration’s rushed deregulation will only invite more chemical disasters.” “This administration wants to play ping pong with the already commonsense protections that were finalized in 2024 after decades of input from communities, workers, and industry alike,” said Maya Nye, Federal Policy Director for Coming Clean. “Millions of Americans in harm’s way of chemical disasters are waiting for protections while industry lobbyists once again rewrite the rules. Enough is enough. Communities around these facilities and workers are hurt the most by rollbacks. Playing policy ping-pong is a waste of limited EPA staff time and shrinking taxpayer resources.”
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