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RMP Proposal Rejects Advocates' Calls For 'Safer' Chemicals, Processes


March 11, 2016 at 01:28 PM
The Obama administration is proposing to overhaul federal risk management plan (RMP) requirements in order to impose new mandates on industrial facilities to prevent and mitigate releases of harmful chemicals, but is rejecting advocates' long-running push to mandate use of “inherently safer” processes or regulate additional substances.

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