US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency is reconsidering the 2024 Risk Management Plan rule. Zeldin has said the rule has raised concerns relating to national security and the value of the prescriptive requirements within the rule.
“The Biden EPA’s costly Risk Management Plan rule ignored recommendations from national security experts on how their rule makes chemical and other sensitive facilities in America more vulnerable to attack,” Zeldin said.
The EPA said accident prevention was and continues to be a priority for EPA in the Trump Administration.
The reconsideration as announced in conjunction with several actions intended to advance President Donald Trump’s Day One executive orders.