Environmentalists Urge CSB To Make OSHA, EPA ‘Top Advocacy Priority’

Environmental, labor and other groups are pushing to overhaul the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) by rebuilding its investigative capacity to better protect workers and by making reform of OSHA’s process safety rule and EPA chemical facility regulations its “top advocacy priority,” among other measures. Twenty-two groups, including Earthjustice, the Union for Concerned Scientists, United Steelworkers (USW) and the National Council for Occupational Safety and Health, wrote a July 8 letter to CSB Chair Katherine Lemos, seeking...