The Trump Administration has allocated no money to fund the Chemical Safety Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) for fiscal year 2026, directing the agency to use its emergency funds to shutter its doors ...

PORT NECHES, Texas — The Trump administration is proposing to eliminate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), the same federal agency that investigated the 2019 TPC explosion ...

The proposed closure of the CSB follows several other moves by the Trump administration to slash staffing levels at the Environmental Protection Agency and ease federal health and safety regulations.

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 ...

Despite the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) not requesting a budget in its FY 2026 Budget Request – instead stating that “[t]he President’s Budget proposes $0 for CSB’s FY ...

Safety experts warn that eliminating the Chemical Safety Board would remove a critical investigative partner to OSHA, leaving gaps in root cause analysis and hazard prevention. The Chemical Safety ...

"The absence of strong process safety protocols—and the failure to apply lessons from past similar events—put TS USA’s workers at serious risk, with one of them tragically being killed.” On June 3, ...

On Nov. 9, U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Chairman John Bresland released a new video safety message asking jurisdictions across the country to adopt the American Society of Mechanical Engineers ...

VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) -- The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) launched a federal investigation into the chemical leak at a manufacturing plant in McArthur, Ohio, earlier this month. It comes ...

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