The Trump administration’s budget proposal will again call for eliminating the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, an independent federal agency that investigates major industrial accidents, according to a person familiar with the plan.
The board, with an annual budget of just $12 million, was informed by the White House Office of Management and Budget of the plans, according to the person, a senior government official who wasn’t authorized to discuss the budget proposal before its release next week.
Calls to kill the agency have been previously ignored by Congress ...