The board said the administration is taking “a significant step backwards” on preventing chemical disasters. By Hiroko Tabuchi For a year now, the Chemical Safety Board, a small independent agency ...

An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters — including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide — would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed ...

A shelter-in-place order was issued for 1-mile radius of Catalyst Refiners, Nitro, West Virginia on April 22, 2026. Two chemical plant workers are dead, one is critically injured and as many as 20 ...

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 Trump administration's U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is targeting chemical safety protections that loom large in West Virginia in the aftermath of a fatal chemical facility incident ...

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 ...

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.

The Trump administration is seeking to repeal Biden-era requirements intended to prevent catastrophic chemical accidents at thousands of industrial plants and other operations around the country. In a ...

The Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore (MPA) and the Marine Department of Malaysia (MDM) conducted a joint chemical spill exercise at sea along the East Johor Strait to test the Joint Emergency ...