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Chemical accidents rise as Trump administration proposes weakening safety rules
The Trump administration is proposing to weaken safety rules for industrial chemicals, coinciding with a rise in chemical accidents. Physicist Ronald Koopman's 1980s research on hydrofluoric acid highlighted risks that are now resurfacing as regulations face rollback.
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