MIDWAY, Tenn. (WJHL) — A formal investigation has officially been launched months after the U.S. Nitrogen plant in Greene County experienced a malfunction upon startup and released plumes of nitric ...

A new report from the U.S. Chemical Safety Board into last year's BioLab chemical fire has revealed what officials say was a "disturbing" lack of safeguards in how the plant stored corrosive chemicals ...

Congress established the CSB through amendments to the Clean Air Act in 1990. Since becoming operational in 1998, the board has played a key role in probing the root causes of major chemical accidents ...

It's been over four years since a deadly chemical plant explosion in Kanawha County killed a worker and injured three others, starting a large fire and dumping car-damaging debris nearly half a mile ...

On a summer night in 2023, an explosion at one of Louisiana’s biggest petrochemical complexes sent a plume of fire into the sky. More explosions followed as poison gas spewed from damaged tanks at the ...

VINTON COUNTY, Ohio (WOWK) — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) has launched an investigation into the release of toxic nitric acid and nitrogen oxide gas at the Austin ...

The proposed closure of the CSB follows several other moves by the Trump administration to slash staffing levels at the Environmental Protection Agency and ease federal health and safety regulations.

BURLESON COUNTY, Texas (KBTX) - A federal safety board on Tuesday shared findings of a devastating oil and gas well blowout that occurred three years ago in Burleson County. The incident, which ...

The recent explosion at Clairton Coke Works killed two workers and injured 10 others. The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) is now investigating this tragedy. The CSB is the only independent federal ...

An independent agency that investigates chemical disasters — including fatal fires and explosions at chemical plants and oil refineries nationwide — would shutter by October 2026 under little-noticed ...