EPA has made reducing the risk of accidental releases of hazardous chemicals at industrial and chemical facilities one of its top enforcement priorities for 2017 to 2019. This increased enforcement focus on industrial accidents and releases comes as part of EPA’s larger effort to implement more aggressive risk management requirements at industrial facilities handling hazardous chemicals. Also included in this effort are proposed regulations that will expand upon current risk management requirements. These new initiatives signal EPA’s increased willingness to use Clean Air Act authority broadly to find companies liable when accidental releases occur, and to impose stronger requirements that companies will have to implement before any incident ever occurs.