Trump Administration Proposing to Rollback Significant EPA Regulations for Chemical Disasters
Chemical Disasters in the United States
With the climate rapidly changing, the United States finds itself in political struggles to change policies for mitigating its potential effects on chemical disasters.[1] Since 2022, Democrats have urged the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) to consider how climate change impacts chemical disasters. In particular, climate change can cause more frequent extreme weather that acts as a “threat multiplier” for chemical disasters. This threat multiplier spells out significant potential harm and impact to several vulnerable communities and workers at these chemical facilities.[3]
