The Trump administration wants to shut down the agency that investigates chemical explosions

The Trump administration wants to shut down the agency that investigates chemical explosions

This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the Dow chemical plant, triggering a shelter-in-place order for anyone within a half mile of the facility, which sprawls across more than 830 acres near Baton Rou…