.MaddowBlog: Trump admin. to roll back Obama-era chemical safety standards.
Donald Trump and his team have long taken an unsettling approach toward chemical safety. In the Republican’s first year in office, for example, the president nominated Michael Dourson to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s office of chemical safety, despite the fact that Dourson had spent much of his career not only accepting money from the chemical industry, but also helping chemical companies fight against chemical safety regulations.
The Environmental Protection Agency weakened a rule Thursday governing how companies store dangerous chemicals. […] According to Andrew Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist who now leads Trump’s EPA, this decision was driven by counter-terrorism concerns. Of course, it’s worth noting for context that Trump’s first EPA administrator, Scott Pruitt, pursued the same change in 2017 for reasons that were unrelated to national security.
As longtime readers may recall, the public soon learned that the plant reportedly had no alarms, no automatic shutoff system, and no firewall.
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