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Trump to Again Propose Eliminating Chemical Safety Board, Official Says

  • Agency’s charged with investigating major industrial accidents
  • White House has criticized agency for pushing regulations
Smoke rises from controlled oil burns of oil on the surface of the water as the Development Driller II, left, and Discoverer Enterprise work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, on June 19, 2010.

Smoke rises from controlled oil burns of oil on the surface of the water as the Development Driller II, left, and Discoverer Enterprise work at the site of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana, on June 19, 2010.

Photographer: Derick E. Hingle/Bloomberg

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President Donald Trump’s 2019 budget proposal will again call for ending the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, an independent agency that investigates major industrial accidents, according to a senior government official familiar with the plan.

The agency, with an annual budget of $11 million, was informed by the White House Office of Management and Budget in November that the budget would propose its elimination, the person said.