AG Kaul: Joins lawsuit against the Trump Administration for gutting safety protections for chemical accidents
MADISON, Wis. – Attorney General Kaul today joined a coalition of 15 attorneys general and the City of Philadelphia in suing the Trump Administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for gutting safeguards to prevent and limit harms from dangerous chemical accidents. Specifically, the coalition is challenging the EPA’s rollback of Obama-era amendments to its “Risk Management Program” (RMP) regulations, referred to as the Chemical Disaster Rule. This rule made critical improvements to the RMP to better safeguard against explosions, fires, poisonous gas releases, and other accidents at facilities that store and use toxic chemicals. “The Trump Administration’s rollback of important safeguards