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 ...
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 ...
Oil, gas and petrochemical plants, such as this Enterprise Products facility, are a common site in Norco, Louisiana. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Even today, more than five years later, ...
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 ...
When the Chemical Safety Board revealed how Jose Wilfredo Perez Jr. died last year trying to flee a toxic plume of hydrogen sulfide wafting through Pemex's Deer Park oil refinery, the federal agency ...
MIDWAY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A formal investigation has officially been launched months after the U.S. Nitrogen plant in Greene County experienced a malfunction upon startup and released plumes of nitric ...
At a press conference in Hattiesburg, Miss., on Oct. 27, the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) issued recommendations to EPA, state regulators, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) and the ...
BEAUMONT, Texas — Even today, more than five years later, residents still talk about the fire. The chemical facility burned for three days, leaked toxic runoff into the waterways, forced schools and ...