Chemical Safety Board Chairman Rafael Moure-Eraso doesn’t appear to think the management problems facing his besieged agency are as grave as some of his colleagues do. Chemical Safety Board Chairman ...

The federal board is looking into two 2023 releases, one at a Honeywell facility and another at a Dow Chemical site. The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board says that it has launched ...

A Deer Park chemical leak that left two people dead and several others injured earlier this year was triggered when two contract workers opened the incorrect flange, according to the U.S. Chemical ...

Staffing shortages and infighting among a dwindling number of decision-makers are hampering investigations of chemical fires, explosions and other petrochemical industry accidents in Louisiana and ...

The U.S. Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is calling on chemical companies to better prepare for the growing likelihood of a future of flooding, hurricanes, and extreme weather ...

The Deepwater Horizon oil rig burns in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010, following an explosion that killed 11 workers and caused the worst offshore oil spill in the nation ...

The independent agency that investigates chemical accidents, which had been plagued by vacancies on its board and a shortage of trained staff members, has reduced its backlog of probes and expanded ...

WHEN CAROLYN MERRITT took the helm of the Chemical Safety & Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) five years ago, it was do-or-die time for the board. Its future was riding on her ability to lead and to ...

For decades, chemical explosions got the same attention as plane crashes, with an independent government agency rushing to the scene, gathering evidence and then coming up with a probable cause and ...

The tiny independent Chemical Safety Board—one of the 19 agencies President Trump has sought to abolish—on Thursday began probing a flood-related chemical fire and explosion just outside Houston. At ...