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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsYes, Virginia, Trump is planning to kill the CSB
The US Chemical Safety Board is the government agency that's investigating the Arkema peroxide plant disaster. They have a $12 million budget, they do a hell of a lot of good...and in Trump's proposed budget, they will be no more.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-budget-csb/trumps-proposal-to-scrap-chemical-safety-board-draws-criticism-idUSKBN16O0FK
Among the things they have done...
The West Fertilizer Company blast
A hazmat collection facility in Apex, NC
A solvent factory explosion in Kansas
One about the hazards of nitrogen...
BainsBane
(53,029 posts)Snarkoleptic
(5,997 posts)#doomedTOrepeat
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)jmowreader
(50,552 posts)If they go to YouTube and search for USCSB, they can see many of them.
beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)Every day I wake up and think I'm not going to get outraged over whatever horrible thing he does today.
And every day I get outraged over the horrible thing(s) he did.
Thanks for the heads up, retweeted.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)These republicans be bigly dangerous.
Not just Comrade Casino, the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, but the whole hypocritical, greed-and-dogma driven gaggle of republican cronies & comrades.