#OVEarth will be highlighting the Trump administration's environmental rollbacks with the hope that @Transition46 takes notice and reverses all of them once @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris take office. We will highlight at least one a day until the inauguration.

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89. Rolled back most of the requirements of a 2017 rule aimed at improving safety at sites that use hazardous chemicals that was instituted after a chemical plant exploded in Texas.

It was a fertilizer plant, which exploded in 2013.

#ONEV1 #OVEarth https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-deadly/
Why Was the Texas Fertilizer Plant Explosion So Deadly?

The substance that killed up to 15 people, injured 180 and wrecked the buildings in a five-block radius is the same stuff that makes the beans and barley grow. But not all fertilizers are equally...

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-texas-fertilizer-plant-explosion-deadly/
The rule created by Obama's EPA to help prevent chemical disasters was published Jan. 13, 2017, before the end of Obama's 2nd term.

But the Trump administration delayed it from ever taking effect, and ultimately dismantled it.

#ONEV1 #OVEarth https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2017/09/chemical-disaster-rule/
Chemical Disaster Rule – Risk Management Plan / Accidental Release Prevention Requirements -...

In April 2013, an explosion in a West Texas fertilizer factory killed 15 people and injured another 180. In early 2017, during the Obama Administration, EPA amended chemical facility risk management...

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/2017/09/chemical-disaster-rule/
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