Help us reach 5,000 comments to overcome corporate polluters.? Tell the EPA:
PROTECT COMMUNITIES FROM CHEMICAL DISASTERS
The EPA is now seeking public input on a new rule to require industrial facilities to disclose the hazardous chemical risks posed by their operations, take stronger actions to prevent accidents, and move quickly should an accident occur.

Corporate polluters have already killed this rule once, when Trump decided to allow these dangerous facilities to operate in secrecy. We cannot allow them to succeed again.

GOAL: 5,000 actions
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? Friend ? a critical new rule from Biden's EPA would finally require dangerous industrial facilities to disclose any hazardous chemicals they contain ? and take steps to prevent and mitigate harmful accidents.

This rule will especially protect people living closest to these facilities, which are overwhelmingly low-wealth communities and communities of color, as well as workers. Decades of environmental racism ensured these hazardous facilities were located in the neighborhoods with the least resources to fight back, meaning these frontline communities are disproportionately exposed to chemical accidents and harmful pollutants that have jeopardized their health.

Here's the problem: powerful interests, like the oil and gas industry and the chemical industry, are demanding the EPA once again abandon these important protections. Unless our movement speaks up right now, we may miss out on this opportunity to advance environmental justice and worker safety, and create healthier communities and workplaces.

Please TAKE ACTION right now to protect communities from chemical hazards. To beat the chemical industry, we need to urgently deliver 5,000 comments supporting the EPA's proposed rule. [link removed]

We've already seen the dangers these facilities can pose. In 2013, an explosion of ammonium nitrate fertilizer killed 15 people and destroyed a school, nursing home, and many homes in the city of West, Texas. The Obama administration began a painstaking process to prevent similar disasters, culminating in enhanced protections for minimizing and managing chemical risks.

But after an aggressive campaign from the chemical industry and other corporate polluters, the Trump administration abandoned the rule, choosing to prioritize corporate profits over the health of vulnerable communities and workers.

Under President Biden, the EPA can now reverse this dangerous decision and finally help protect people, especially environmental justice communities, from hazardous pollution and chemical disasters.

Don't let corporate polluters undermine critical environment protections. TAKE ACTION now to help us deliver 5,000 comments supporting environmental justice and corporate accountability. [link removed]

Thank you for taking action to protect people and workers from environmental disasters.

Sincerely,

Madeleine Foote
Deputy Legislative Director
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