US Chemical Safety Board Chair Resigns Citing Lost Confidence

  • Trump nominee Lemos to quit industrial accident probe agency
  • Agency’s tasks include investigating refinery explosions
Katherine LemosPhotographer: Zach Gibson/Getty Images
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The head of a federal safety agency that investigates major industrial accidents has submitted her resignation, according to a letter seen by Bloomberg.

Katherine Lemos’s departure would leave the five-person US Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board with two members, though the White House said this week it would nominate Catherine J.K. Sandoval, a professor at California’s Santa Clara University, to the board.