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Chemical Safety Board chairperson stepping down

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Chemical Safety Board chairperson stepping down

Vanessa Allen Sutherland, the chairperson of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, is resigning from the board in June.

The board members will be required to vote on an interim executive, unless and until the White House nominates and the U.S. Senate confirms a new chairperson, according to a statement from the agency on Monday.

“I am saddened to leave the wonderful mission and incredible work of the CSB,” she said in the statement. “This mission is unique and critically important because we are the only agency conducting independent, comprehensive root cause chemical incident investigations. As we continue to recognize the agency’s 20th anniversary of operations, we still have much work to do to achieve our vision of a nation safe from chemical disasters.”

The board is an independent, non-regulatory federal agency that examines all aspects of chemical incidents and has produced reports on the causes of major incidents such as the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in which 11 workers perished in April 2010 and the West, Texas, fertilizer disaster that killed 15 people, including 12 emergency responders, in April 2013.

The board has been targeted for elimination by the Trump administration during its first two annual budget proposals, but has been preserved by the U.S. Congress.

 

 

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