U.S. Chemical Safety Board could be eliminated

1. q3k ◴[24 Jun 25 00:46 UTC] No.44361756[source]▶

Direct from the CSB:

> The President’s Budget proposes $0 for CSB’s FY 2026 budget with the expectation that CSB begins closing down during FY 2025. CSB’s emergency fund of $844,145 will be appropriated to cover costs associated with closing down the agency. Exact closing costs will be determined upon consultation with OMB and Congress.

Source: https://www.csb.gov/assets/1/6/csb_cj_2026.pdf

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2. hecanjog ◴[24 Jun 25 00:58 UTC] No.44361840[source]▶

>>44361756 (TP) #

This claims the EPA and OSHA already perform the same duties, is that actually true?

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3. andrekandre ◴[24 Jun 25 01:15 UTC] No.44361942[source]▶

>>44361756 (TP) #

  > The President’s Budget proposes $0 for CSB’s FY 2026 budget

it seems they tried doing the same trick to the cfpb (consumer finance protection bureau) as well but was stopped by the parliamentarian

https://themortgagepoint.com/2025/06/23/senate-parliamentari...

4. ZYbCRq22HbJ2y7 ◴[24 Jun 25 01:17 UTC] No.44361949[source]▶

>>44361840 #

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._Chemical_Safety_Board

> The Senate legislative history states: "The principal role of the new chemical safety board is to investigate accidents to determine the conditions and circumstances which led up to the event and to identify the cause or causes so that similar events might be prevented." Congress gave the CSB a unique statutory mission and provided in law that no other agency or executive branch official may direct the activities of the board.

5. Retric ◴[24 Jun 25 01:18 UTC] No.44361957[source]▶

>>44361840 #

In practice it’s got a very distinct role.

They basically do NTSB aircraft crash investigations for large scale chemical accidents. Critically they don’t assign fines or act proactively like EPA or OSHA, it’s a neutral investigation.

6. photochemsyn ◴[24 Jun 25 01:19 UTC] No.44361960[source]▶

>>44361840 #

No - "The CSB investigates industrial chemical accidents—not to assign blame, but to figure out why they happened and how to prevent them. No other federal agency does this kind of root cause analysis focused purely on safety improvement. OSHA and the EPA enforce rules, but they don’t specialize in deep, systems-based investigations like the CSB does."