Key facts
- Eleven people died in a chemical tank rupture at a paper mill in Longview, Washington.
- A separate incident at a California aerospace plastics facility involved a tank with nearly 7,000 gallons of methyl methacrylate.
- The Washington incident involved a 900,000-gallon tank containing 'white liquor'.
- Safety complaints were filed against the Washington facility in March and May.
- The Trump Administration plans to repeal regulations aimed at preventing industrial chemical releases.
Recent fatal chemical plant accidents, including a deadly tank rupture in Washington and a near-explosion in California, have intensified scrutiny on industrial safety regulations. Despite these events, the Trump Administration is reportedly planning to weaken federal rules designed to prevent such catastrophic incidents, raising concerns among experts and environmental groups about future safety.