EPA to Weaken Protections Against Toxic Chemical Disasters – the Risk Management Program

Washington D.C– In response to EPA’s proposal to weaken safety protections and accident prevention measures for facilities using extremely hazardous chemicals under the Risk Management Program, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) released the following statement from LCV Government Affairs Advocate for Healthy Communities Lizzy Duncan:

“With this proposal, Trump’s EPA is actively endangering people’s lives. They are abandoning over 177 million people who live near and work in facilities using extremely hazardous chemicals by weakening safety protections and accident prevention measures. Removing the Risk Management Program’s requirements for safer technologies and community notifications after a chemical disaster is another giveaway to corporate polluters and chemical industry lobbyists, at the expense of the health and safety of our communities, workers, and first responders. We urge Trump’s EPA to stop prioritizing polluters over people and abandon this reckless proposal that will inevitably lead to more illness and death caused by chemical disasters.”

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