Industry giants push rollback of EPA risk management regs

By Sean Reilly | 02/03/2025 04:18 PM EST

The business coalition says urgent action is needed before industry has to make “costly investments” before a 2027 compliance deadline.

Smoke rises from a chemical plant.

Smoke rises from a chemical plant owned by Arkema in Crosby, Texas, on Sept. 1, 2017. EPA last year tightened a rule on accidental chemical releases from refineries, chemical plants and thousands of other facilities. KTRK via AP

A coalition of business groups is pressing the Trump administration to roll back key features of EPA regulations released last year aimed at better preventing accidental air pollutant releases from thousands of industrial plants.

The groups also want the agency to scrap a website that makes companies’ blueprints for managing those risks partly available online.

“It is imperative that EPA take immediate action to fix critical areas of this rule,” the coalition, which includes the American Chemistry Council, American Petroleum Institute and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said in a newly released letter to Administrator Lee Zeldin.

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Saying that the regulations include “misguided and illegal new requirements that fail to make facilities safer,” they add that urgent action is needed before industry has to make “costly investments” in advance of a 2027 compliance deadline.

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