alt Hacker NewsWorth mentioning that in February the EPA proposed to severely deregulate chemical facilities like the one in Garden Grove, gutting third-party audits, hazard reporting, and public transparency requirements. They titled it the ‘Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention.’ The public comment window closed just eleven days before this disaster…
https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-24/pdf/2026-0...
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Yeah, what this administration calls common sense is more like dumbass sense than anything else. On almost every level.
Once I learned that sugar dust can literally _detonate_ I stopped being a Libertarian.
Also the USCSB is one of my favorite federal institutions:
At some point, people who post unrelated political noise on disaster topics need to be muted.
This is irresponsible and unprovoked propaganda. Even if the Trump admin had implemented this change, California State regulations would still be in place.
Please take your political trash back to Reddit.
It's not like chemical spills didn't happen before these changes though. Let's not sensationalize. Can you directly link the change in policy t this leak?
From what I understand, this gutted the 2024 additions which effectively returned it to the pre-2024 regulations. The EPA also cites a ~45% reduction in accidental releases from 2014–2023.
Not saying the 2024 changes were not justified, but your comment makes it seem like we're going back much farther in time.