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Trump EPA eases safety requirements enacted after West explosion

Attorney General Ken Paxton applauded the new rules, saying they would make Texans safer. The Obama-era regulation was meant to improve chemical safety practices and prevent tragedies like the deadly 2013 fertilizer plant explosion in the tiny Central Texas town of West.

A vehicle near the remains of a fertilizer plant burning after an explosion in West, Texas, near Waco.

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