New leadership at the federal board probing chemical accidents is focusing efforts on releasing more reports and information as it tries to climb out of a bureaucratic hole from investigator shortages.
The renewed momentum comes as both the House and Senate’s proposed fiscal year 2023 appropriation bills call for boosting the budget of the US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board to $14.4 million, a $1 million increase over fiscal 2022.
“It’s a big deal for us to get that level of funding. It will enable us hire more staff, in particular more investigators, which we really need,” the board’s ...
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