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Pruitt Cites Texas Arson As Reason For Reconsidering Facility Safety Rule


March 15, 2017 at 06:42 PM
EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's decision to reconsider the Obama administration's final rule overhauling the agency's facility accident prevention program hinged on federal investigators' ruling that arson caused the West, TX, fire driving the rulemaking, backing industry assertions that the finding is a threshold issue that undermines the need for the rule.

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