EPA Announces Reconsideration of the Risk Management Plan to Boost Safety, Competitiveness of American Businesses
WASHINGTON – U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency is reconsidering the 2024 Risk Management Plan (RMP) rule. This rule has raised significant concerns relating to national security and the value of the prescriptive requirements within the rule. As a result, the 2024 RMP rule makes America’s oil and natural gas refineries and chemical facilities less safe and less competitive.
“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,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin.
Accident prevention was and continues to be a priority for EPA in the Trump Administration. In 2019, the agency implemented rules that promoted coordination between chemical facilities and emergency responders, cut red tape and regulatory burdens, and addressed security risks associated with prior amendments to the rule. Biden’s costly rules negated this progress. EPA is committed to delivering common sense policy decisions that safeguard human health and the environment and bolster economic growth.
This was announced in conjunction with a number of historic actions to advance President Trump’s Day One executive orders and Power the Great American Comeback. Combined, these announcements represent the greatest and most consequential day of deregulation in the history of the United States. While accomplishing EPA’s core mission of protecting the environment, the agency is committed to fulfilling President Trump’s promise to unleash American energy, lower costs for Americans, revitalize the American auto industry, restore the rule of law, and give power back to states to make their own decisions.
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