A proposal issued by EPA would remove all details on worst-case scenarios for potential chemical accidents from executive summaries of company risk management plans (RMPs). The Clean Air Act requires 15,000 facilities that make or use large quantities of toxic or flammable chemicals to compile RMPs to provide key information to emergency planners, fire departments and residents.
Congress has restricted access to this information by making it available only in local reading rooms. EPA no longer supplies RMP information directly to the public.