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Vanessa Sutherland, the chairperson of the CSB Board, told \u003Cem\u003EThe Nation\u003C\/em\u003E the agency has already requested documents from Arkema about the facility and the chemicals stored there, and CSB investigators will soon visit the site.\n\u003Cp\u003EBut in President Donald Trump\u2019s budget proposal, the CSB was completely defunded. If Congress acts on that request, we might never see the results of the Arkema investigation, nor many of the other studies CSB is conducting. Even budget cuts might hamper those investigations.\n\u003Cp\u003E\u201cCertainly, if we were eliminated, that would hinder our ability to wrap up any open investigation,\u201d said Sutherland. \u201cIf our budget were cut it could adversely affect our ability to complete the investigation, or complete it in a more timely matter.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003EThe CSB was created by amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990, and was modeled after the National Transportation Safety Board, which sends in engineers and experts every time there\u2019s a plane crash or other major transportation disaster. Like the NTSB, the CSB is not a regulatory agency. It can\u2019t punish companies or bad actors; it just puts out comprehensive reports about the accidents it investigates and explores root causes and ways to prevent them in the future.\n\u003Cp\u003EThis mandate goes beyond other what other federal agencies will do at Arkema and other chemical-accident sites. The Environmental Protection Agency and the Occupational Health and Safety Administration are simply looking for violations of existing law or regulations. 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The Arkema fire and explosions are exactly what we do,\u201d said Sutherland. \u201cWe interview workers, we collect evidence, we review the law, and we take a very broad approach to understanding the incidents leading up to a catastrophe, as well as the systemic challenges that contributed to an accident.\u201d\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Trump \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/sites\/whitehouse.gov\/files\/omb\/budget\/fy2018\/msar.pdf\u0022\u003Ebudget proposed\u003C\/a\u003E eliminating the CSB outright, and justified it by saying, \u201cThe U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is proposed for elimination consistent with the Administration\u2019s efforts to close programs that are largely duplicative of other Agency efforts.\u201d But that isn\u2019t true\u2014the work is not performed elsewhere. (In fact, it\u2019s statutorily assigned to the CSB, and if Congress doesn\u2019t repeal the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments that created the agency and its prerogatives, but simply defunded it, no other part of the federal government could perform those tasks.)\n\u003Cp\u003ETrump\u2019s budget request perplexed some Senate overseers and the labor unions that protect chemical plant workers, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/why-does-trump-want-to-stop-investigating-chemical-accidents\/\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eas we reported in March\u003C\/a\u003E, since the chemical industry has not publicly been agitating for CSB\u2019s elimination nor applying any lobbyist pressure to get rid of it.\n\u003Cp\u003EMoreover, the CSB\u2019s annual budget is just under $11 million, or about what a good-but-not-great NFL wide receiver earns, and a minuscule fraction of the federal budget.\n\t\u003C\/div\u003E\n\u003C\/section\u003E\n\n\u003Csection 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datetime=\u00222017-09-02T13:27:53+00:00\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 2, 2017 at 1:27 pm\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/time\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C!-- .comment-metadata --\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003EThank you, George. As per usual, the Trump Administration never loses an opportunity to do the wrong thing. How can ANYBODY be against this Chemical Hazards Board? \u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBTW: I live half an hour away from the Arkema plant.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022ldc-cmt-box clearfix\u0022\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022ldc-ul_cont\u0022 onclick=\u0022alter_ul_post_values(this,2109941887,\u0027c_like\u0027)\u0022 \u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/themes\/thenation\/images\/up.png\u0022 alt=\u0022upimg\u0022\/\u003E(\u003Cspan\u003E1\u003C\/span\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003Cspan class=\u0022ldc-ul_cont\u0022 onclick=\u0022alter_ul_post_values(this,2109941887,\u0027c_dislike\u0027)\u0022 \u003E\u003Cimg src=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/themes\/thenation\/images\/down.png\u0022 alt=\u0022downimg\u0022\/\u003E(\u003Cspan\u003E0\u003C\/span\u003E)\u003C\/span\u003E\u003C\/div\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\u003Cspan class=\u0022safe-comments-report-link\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cspan id=\u0022safe-comments-result-2109941887\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\u003Ca onclick=\u0022safe_report_comments_flag_comment(\u00272109941887\u0027,\u0027b58a3b07d1\u0027,\u0027safe-comments-result-2109941887\u0027)\u0022 href=\u0022javascript:void(0);\u0022 class=\u0022hide-if-no-js imgHover\u0022\u003E\u003Cimg title=\u0022Flag Comment\u0022 src=\u0022https:\/\/www.thenation.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/safe-report-comments\/img\/flag.png\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\n\t\t\u003C\/span\u003E\n\t\u003C\/span\u003E\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C!-- .comment-content --\u003E\n\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\u003C\/article\u003E\n\t\t\t\n\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C!-- #comment-## --\u003E\n\u003C\/li\u003E\u003C!-- #comment-## --\u003E\n \u003Cli id=\u0022comment-2109941880\u0022 class=\u0022comment byuser comment-author-006089924 odd alt thread-odd thread-alt depth-1\u0022\u003E\n \u003Carticle id=\u0022div-comment-2109941880\u0022 commentIDVal=\u00222109941880\u0022 class=\u0022comment-body \u0022\u003E\n \t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022comment-content\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cb class=\u0022fn\u0022\u003EJulie E King\u003C\/b\u003E \u003Cspan class=\u0022says\u0022\u003Esays:\u003C\/span\u003E\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cdiv class=\u0022comment-metadata\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Ctime datetime=\u00222017-09-02T06:01:00+00:00\u0022\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSeptember 2, 2017 at 6:01 am\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/time\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003C\/div\u003E\u003C!-- .comment-metadata --\u003E\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\u003Cp\u003EMost chemical companies storing these toxic chemicals are required by regulation to provide another chemical to stop the chain reaction in case of failure such as this, which stops the reaction but makes the chemicals unusable. \u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nBut Texas of course is anti-regulation. 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