Chemical Accidents Rise, Analysis Shows, as Trump Administration Proposes Weakening Safety Rules

Inside Climate News · By Liza Gross · last updated June 30, 2026 – 4:05 PM

Hazardous chemical releases from industrial accidents that injured or killed people increased by more than 50 percent in recent years.

By Liza Gross

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 testing.

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