Few regulations have been as subject to the yo-yo of successive presidential administrations and their political whims.

There were 90 declarations of “major disasters” in 2024, making it one of the worst years for disasters declarations in the ...

The administration also signaled plans to roll back Biden-era rules that aim to prevent chemical disasters at 12,000 ...

By Hiroko Tabuchi The Trump administration has moved to rewrite rules designed to prevent disasters at thousands of chemical facilities across the country. The Environmental Protection Agency ...

Risk Management Program has been extended and rolled back under successive governments ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has indicated it will roll back Biden-era protections against chemical disasters, a move in keeping with industry's hopes and environmentalists' fears.

And the latest news received pushback from environmental advocates, who argue that making changes could result in more chemical disasters. “It would mean a real disservice to communities ...

The former Velsicol Chemical Plant in Gratiot County is the epicenter of an environmental disaster that ultimately killed millions of farm animals, financially destroyed many farmers and poisoned ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced changes to the implementation of the National Enforcement and Compliance Initiatives ...

The RMP program was established in 1990 following a series of infamous chemical disasters in the 1980s, most notably the chemical leak at Union Carbide’s plant in Bhopal, India, which poisoned ...