After more than a year of bad decisions—yes, Moms has a Bad Decision Tracker—EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is outdoing himself. He is now pushing to roll back the 2024 Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule.
This commonsense protection was created to safeguard communities near industrial facilities. These communities are living with a far higher risk of devastating toxic chemical disasters. The rule prioritizes our families’ safety by ensuring that dangerous chemical facilities adhere to safety standards to prevent chemical accidents.
Make sure EPA protects this crucial safeguard for our neighborhoods.
Tell EPA: Protect Our Families From Chemical Disasters
The threat of disasters from chemical facilities is a real and present danger for people across the country. In one Pennsylvania community, 3,200 children attend Mars Area Schools in buildings only a mile from the James Austin Bleach Company, which makes bleach. Nearby, the Markwest Bluestone methane gas processing facility poses a health and safety risk for the more than 4,000 students at local Seneca Valley Schools. Upwind in the next county over, the Shell petrochemical complex, one of the largest plastics facilities in North America, puts students at three schools located less than three miles away at risk.
But it’s not just this corner of Pennsylvania. More than a third of U.S. children attend school near a hazardous chemical facility. Half of these children are in schools near more than one chemical facility.
EPA’s mission is to protect human health and the environment. This proposal is yet another betrayal of this mission by Administrator Zeldin. That’s why it’s so crucial that we as caregivers fighting for our children’s health apply extra pressure—and sound the alarm as loudly as we can. By protecting this rule, we protect our children from disaster.
Join Moms in demanding that EPA make the right decision: protect the Safer Communities by Chemical Accident Prevention Rule.