On Saturday, a long-time reader, Richard Rosera, left a comment on my Chemical Incident Reporting post pointing at the Chemical Safety Board’s FY 2024 Performance and Accountability Report that was recently posted to the CSB’s website. As Richard notes: “Not a lot of controversy here”.
The more important part of Richard’ comment looks at the future of the CSB. He notes:
“,,, but the overall question remains of what will happen when Trump becomes President. The terms of all three current Board members will expire before Trump leaves office, and Trump sought to eliminate the CSB entirely during his previous term.”
While Trump did zero out the CSB funding in his first two budgets submitted to Congress, there was broad, bipartisan support in Congress to keep the Board operating. Trump did end up nominating (and the Senate approved) Katherine A. Lemos as the new CSB Chair. In hindsight that appointment did little to advance the operations of the CSB.
There are still two open positions on the five-member Board.
How soon (or even if) Trump moves to
fill these positions will signal what the future might hold for the Board under
the new administration. I would suspect that any Republican nominees would be
from industry rather than having an environmental and worker safety focus that
the three current board members have.
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