The Biden administration’s strengthened RMP rules require a number of measures to reduce the risk of catastrophic accidents, ...

Aging infrastructure is making more plants susceptible to accidents. Many are repeat offenders.

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Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents. Last week, in Washington state, a ...

Two major incidents at chemical plants in one week have intensified scrutiny of the Trump Administration's push to gut chemical safety regulations.

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A little past 4 a.m. on June 21, 2019, workers at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions oil refinery in Philadelphia noticed a leak from a corroded pipe, and were immediately on high alert. The leak had ...

A Texas family is suing after a beloved father of two was crushed by a flying 1,000-pound piece of equipment in a chemical plant, court documents allege. Garrick Newell, 28, died on February 7 while ...

On March 1, the EPA announced finalized amendments to the Risk Management Program (RMP). The agency said the goal is to further protect at-risk communities from chemical accidents, especially those ...

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Marine Department of Malaysia (MDM) conducted a joint chemical spill exercise at sea along the East Johor Strait to test the Joint Emergency ...

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