Applying tougher safety rules to chemical plants in the US
The US government tightened safety rules for chemical plants that had been eased under Trump. |
according to the report of the International Group Tasnim News, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced that safety rules for chemical plants that were eased during the Trump era , intensified once again.
Jeanette McCabe, deputy director of the Environmental Protection Agency, stated that the new law, which has been tightened, includes the strongest and most stringent safety requirements applied to industrial facilities.
The purpose of tightening this law is to prevent accidents in material factories It is chemical.
With the intensification of this law, some of its eased provisions during the Trump era will be revived and intensified again, and factories will be required to acquire technologies and processes They are safer, which reduces the risks. Also, the revival of the requirements needed to perform root and basic analysis after accidents is another provision of this law.
Additionally, requiring accident-prone departments to write plans and implement safety principles and gather more information about safety hazards available to nearby communities. Industrial centers are among the other stricted cases in this law.
These laws were implemented for the first time during the Barack Obama era and after an explosion at a chemical fertilizer plant in Texas that killed 15 people.
These rules apply to 12,000 industrial centers, including chemical manufacturers and distributors, oil refineries, food and beverage manufacturers, and agricultural resource distributors.
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