Darya Minovi (she/her)

Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act; Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is proposing to amend its Risk Management Program (RMP) regulations by making several proposed changes to the 2024 Safer Communities by Chemica...

The comment period is open. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

RMP facilities could also be let off the hook for having to conduct third-party safety audits after reporting a single accident.

That's not "common sense" -it's an irrational concession to industry at the expense of public health.

EPA proposed eliminating explicit requirements for RMP facilities to plan for extreme weather. Our analysis shows that facilities like ExxonMobil Baytown are failing to consider hurricane risks now. It could face 9 ft floods in a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane a/t NOAA.
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EPA proposed eliminating requirements for nearly all RMP facilities to evaluate and implement safer alternatives in their existing processes - no matter how many disasters they've had.

More than 100 facilities regulated by the Risk Management Program have had more than one chemical incident in just the last five years. experience.arcgis.com/experience/8...

Disaster Déjà Vu Trump rollbacks invite more disasters at hazardous facilities with a poor safety record

A new analysis and interactive map illustrates the real-world impacts of gutting regulations for the nation’s most hazardous chemical facilities, as recently proposed by the Trump Administration's EPA.
With @tejasbarrios.bsky.social

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Trump Administration Weakens Safeguards, Putting Millions of People at Risk of Harmful Chemical Exposure Last week, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its rollback of chemical disaster prevention requirements by proposing to eliminate Risk Management Program safegu...

“Dismantling these hard-won protections puts workers, first responders, and millions of people living at the fenceline of hazardous chemical plants in danger."

Statement by UCS's @dminovi.bsky.social:

Trump Administration Weakens Safeguards, Putting Millions of People at Risk of Harmful Chemical Exposure Last week, the Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published its rollback of chemical disaster prevention requirements by proposing to eliminate Risk Management Program safegu...

See @ucs.org statement on EPA's proposed rollback of chemical disaster prevention requirements under the Risk Management Program. EPA's continued ping-ponging of this rule does nothing but leave workers and communities at risk of catastrophic harm from chemical disasters. Enough is enough.

Trump, Republicans in Congress Rig the Rules to Reward Wealthy Donors Trump, Republicans in Congress Rig the Rules to Reward Wealthy Donors For Immediate Release: February 19, 2026 Contact: David Rosen, drosen@citizen.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Trump administration and ...

NEW: Trump and Republicans in Congress are rigging the rules to reward big donors.

A new CSS memo documents the vectors of these attacks, which harm the public to benefit wealthy donors and corporate interests aligned with MAGA and the GOP.
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Is Fluoride the Only Chemical Trump’s EPA Will Strictly Regulate? EPA announced that it would re-evaluate its scientific review of fluoride in drinking water and potentially update the federal drinking water standards. This is a curious move from an agency that has spent the last year pausing and eliminating regulations for toxic chemicals.

Last month, Trump’s EPA announced that it would re-evaluate its scientific review of fluoride in drinking water and potentially update federal drinking water standards. UCS’s @dminovi.bsky.social analyzes some of the moves by the agency that are threatening people’s health.

Is Fluoride the Only Chemical Trump’s EPA Will Strictly Regulate? EPA announced that it would re-evaluate its scientific review of fluoride in drinking water and potentially update the federal drinking water standards. This is a curious move from an agency that has ...

New blog for @ucs.org on EPA's recent effort to conduct a human health assessment of exposure to fluoride in drinking water. blog.ucs.org/dminovi/is-f...

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February 4th was National Girls and Women in Sports Day. Research across scientific disciplines suggests that participation in sports enhances physical, social, and emotional health. Everyone deserves that opportunity.

➡️ www.womenssportsfoundation.org/get-involved...

Court Rules Trump Administration’s Secret “Climate Working Group” Violated Federal Law Court declared today that the Trump administration violated federal law when it secretly formed the “Climate Working Group” and tasked it with writing a dangerously slanted report used as the basis fo...

A big win today: a federal court found that the Trump administration’s sham report attacking climate science was created in secret by a hand-picked set of climate policy opponents, violating the Federal Advisory Committee Act. Read our statement here:

Preserving Community Science in the Face of Attacks Increasingly, the public is being cut out of decisions that impact their health, communities, and livelihoods—and, unfortunately, we are also seeing this play out at the state level.

UCS’s @dminovi.bsky.social new blog describes how, under the Trump administration, the public is increasingly being cut out of decisions that affect their health, communities, and livelihoods—and how this troubling trend is also playing out at the state level.

Newly Disclosed Records Show Trump Administration’s Unlawful Actions Related to Secretly Formed “Climate Working Group” Newly disclosed records obtained by UCS and EDF about the Trump administration’s “Climate Working Group” reveal brazenly unlawful actions behind the creation of a report that underlies the administrat...

The Trump admin "has been forced to acknowledge its unlawful actions and release gov. documents related to this case, which will allow the public to see for itself how the DOE and EPA worked in concert to solicit a report with predetermined conclusions aimed at overturning the Endangerment Finding."

Preserving Community Science in the Face of Attacks Increasingly, the public is being cut out of decisions that impact their health, communities, and livelihoods—and, unfortunately, we are also seeing this play out at the state level.

New blog for @ucs.org on state laws to ban community science, especially air monitoring, in government decisionmaking. I also delve into the newly reintroduced federal Public Health Air Quality Act from @bluntrochester.senate.gov and @duckworth.senate.gov.

read @dminovi.bsky.social for more: blog.ucs.org/dminovi/how-...

The authoritarian, violent, and anti-science actions of the Trump admin over the past week show clear contempt for democracy and the public good, endangering people in the US and around the world.

Congress must uphold its constitutional responsibility and hold the administration accountable.

The Independent Science Initiative UCS is building an alliance for independent science.

To counter the Trump administration's ongoing assault on science and public health, we need courageous scientists to follow the lead of groups like @ameracadpeds.bsky.social and @cidrap.bsky.social and ensure that the best available science remains accessible to the public.

What Happens When Facts Don't Matter? We're About to Find Out Political interference at the CDC reaches new lows: RFK, Jr., must go.

RFK Jr. must go. Our nation needs a qualified scientist to lead the agency entrusted to keep us all safe and healthy, not an anti-science, misinformation-peddling conspiracy theorist.

Robert F. Kennedy Is Unfit to Lead US Public Health Agencies UCS has been clear since his nomination: RFK Jr. is a dangerous and irresponsible choice to lead HHS.

We’ve said it since the beginning: RFK Jr. is unfit to lead the federal agencies responsible for protecting our health.

Rotavirus Could Come Roaring Back—Very Soon A leading vaccine expert on what the country’s newly overhauled immunization schedule means for children

It is unacceptable that more infants and young children will almost certainly suffer from life-threatening and preventable disease as the consequences of this dangerous decision unfold over the coming months and years.

Cassidy rips RFK Jr. vaccine schedule change, says it’s ‘based on no scientific input’ Sen. Bill Cassidy (R-La.), who cast a critical vote to confirm Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, on Monday blasted the reduction of the childhood immun…

Even Senator Bill Cassidy, a doctor who cast the deciding vote to confirm RFK Jr., says that the decision was “based on no scientific input.”

US cuts the number of vaccines recommended for every child, a move slammed by physicians The U.S. took the unprecedented step Monday of dropping the number of vaccines it recommends for every child — leaving other immunizations, such as flu shots, open to families to choose but without c...

When science is sidelined, children get hurt. In his latest anti-science move, RFK Jr. ignored overwhelming scientific evidence, bypassed the established review process for vaccine recommendations, and all but guaranteed that more children will get sick.

Parents everywhere want to do everything possible to protect their kids and help them thrive. Secretary Kennedy just robbed us of one of the easiest ways to keep our kids safe, through routine science-based vaccine schedules. I'm angry about the kids that will suffer because of this cruel decision.

It's Time for EPA to Regulate Chemicals by Class Enacting strong regulations on chemicals by class, rather than individually, can help protect people and the environment.

TSCA requires EPA to determine if existing or new chemicals should be regulated (banned or limited) or if they pose no unreasonable risk to the public.

E&E News: House panel looks to bolster chemical research The Science, Space and Technology Committee will hear from industry witnesses on how federal regulations affect innovation.

The US House Committee on Science, Space and Technology will hear from only chemical industry representatives this Thursday about the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA), the primary federal law safeguarding the public from exposures to toxic chemicals.

“A Band-Aid on a giant gash”: Trump’s attacks on science may ruin his AI moonshot Trump’s AI “Manhattan Project” will fail if DOGE cuts are kept, critics say.

Divorced from reality: Trump and his appointees are gutting the very scientific institutions needed to support the Genesis Mission—a planned AI-driven federal research platform stacked with potential risks. UCS analyst @jbd-phd.bsky.social weighs in:

Announcing the 2025 UCS Science Defenders The 2025 UCS Science Defenders share a special commitment to leverage science to help their communities. We are so pleased to introduce them, and their great work.

This year, Jetelina found herself collaborating with some unlikely partners on public health projects. Follow her @kkjetelina.bsky.social and explore the full 2025 #ScienceDefenders lineup here:

Meet Katelyn Jetelina, founder of Your Local Epidemiologist.

It has not been an easy year for science, but there are bright spots worth celebrating. We are honoring our 2025 #ScienceDefenders, inspiring people using science to help communities and protect it from political or other interference.

Meet Katelyn Jetelina, founder of Your Local Epidemiologist.