Eighteen Republican attorneys general are re-upping calls for EPA to take down its public database of chemical facilities, arguing its existence could itself be a risk to national security.
The coalition sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday applauding his proposed changes to a rule meant to prevent chemical accidents. But they warned the Risk Management Program’s Public Data Tool, which includes chemical inventories and detailed processes for facilities, poses both physical and cyber security threats due to its “obvious value to nefarious actors.”
“While transparency is important, that interest must be carefully balanced against the real and evolving threat environment faced by critical infrastructure,” the attorneys general wrote in the letter.
Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond led the coalition and was joined by the top legal officers in Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, Utah and West Virginia.
