An hour and a half away from Houston, Texas, a petrochemical plant exploded early this morning. Luckily no one died but the cause of the explosion is still unknown. What we DO know is that this is unacceptable. It put frontline communities in danger. https://ejus.tc/2OoahXh 

This crisis underscores the purpose of the Chemical Disaster Rule, just less than a week after the Trump's @EPA decided to gut key portions of the regulations. https://ejus.tc/2s67eua 

With these impending rollbacks, petrochemical plants won’t have to do a root cause analysis of incidents like this explosion, audits, or figure out if there are safer alternatives for the plant's processes, among various other preparedness and precautions.