Two major incidents at chemical plants within the past week sent tens of thousands fleeing from their homes in California and left 11 people dead in Washington. But despite a spate of similar ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crews spray water on an overheating tank at GKN Aerospace on May 23, 2026 in Garden Grove, California. The tank holds methyl ...

Two recent high-profile chemical plant disasters are putting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s aggressive deregulation of the industry, with even more cuts to chemical safety regulations ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly ...

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to delay, weaken, and dismantle key safeguards against chemical emergencies and disasters, while millions of people nationwide, including ...

After a chemical leak at the Ames Goldsmith plant in Kanawha County killed two workers and injured dozens more last month, federal investigators quickly arrived in West Virginia to begin piecing ...

Raschelle Grandison had just walked out her front door to grab something from her car on a chilly March morning in 2019 when she stopped dead in her tracks. Grandison stared in disbelief at what ...

Physicist Ronald Koopman appeared at a Southern California Air District meeting in 2018 to talk about what seemed like an arcane scientific topic: hydrofluoric acid dispersion and water mitigation ...

The GNK Aerospace chemical facility in California, which overheated in May, threatening a leak or explosion.Photograph: Apu Gomes/Getty Images The number of US chemical accidents is rising just as the ...

Critics are outraged that the Trump administration is moving to roll back chemical safety rules even as the U.S. faces deadly industrial chemical incidents. Last week, in Washington state, a chemical ...

Trump Administration Wants to Close the Watchdog Investigating West Virginia’s Chemical Disasters After a chemical leak at the Ames Goldsmith plant in Kanawha County killed two workers and injured ...