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jmowreader

(50,552 posts)
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 12:03 AM Sep 2017

Yes, 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...
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Yes, Virginia, Trump is planning to kill the CSB (Original Post) jmowreader Sep 2017 OP
Evil motherfucker. BainsBane Sep 2017 #1
File this under thing that Trump and Libertarians don't/can't understand. Snarkoleptic Sep 2017 #2
Thank you for posting these. I tweeted everyone. underthematrix Sep 2017 #3
I just picked a few. jmowreader Sep 2017 #4
It just gets worse and worse. beam me up scottie Sep 2017 #5
republicans pissing on American safety & security. Again. Achilleaze Sep 2017 #6

beam me up scottie

(57,349 posts)
5. It just gets worse and worse.
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 04:10 AM
Sep 2017

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)
6. republicans pissing on American safety & security. Again.
Mon Sep 4, 2017, 06:57 AM
Sep 2017

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.

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