EDITORIAL: More needed to restore body investigating Husky explosion Duluth News-Tribune (MN)
Joe Biden nominated three new members to the
U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
While that may sound pretty routine or mundane, this is the board for the agency responsible for investigating the
April 2018
Husky Energy refinery explosion and fire in
Superior and the mass evacuations that followed across the Twin Ports. It s also the same agency that President
Donald Trump proposed cutting on three separate occasions, leading to a mass exodus of its experienced investigators, a board of only one, and a backlog of work critical to public safety and to avoiding repeats of the sort of fear that swept across
Our View: More needed to restore body investigating Husky explosion
From the editorial: Three years after one of the Twin Ports most terrifying days, pressure has been aplenty on Biden and his administration to sufficiently fund the agency and restore its board.
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An enormous plume of smoke from a second fire at the Husky Energy refinery in Superior billows to the south April 27, 2018. Residents within 10 miles in the direction of the smoke were evacuated. (File / News Tribune)
Last week, President Joe Biden nominated three new members to the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
People of color and those with incomes below the poverty line are more likely to live near oil refineries where air monitors show benzene levels that should trigger federal action.
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Sen. Tom Carper of Delaware urged the Environmental Protection Agency to adopt strict anti-pollution standards that would end sales of new, gas-powered vehicles by 2035.
Carper, the chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, wrote to EPA Administrator Michael Regan late Thursday, imploring the agency to apply California’s fuel and efficiency standards and arguing that U.S. leadership on
green technology will “encourage” businesses to invest in the United States rather than China, according to the
Associated Press.
The senator reportedly asked the agency to follow a deal reached between California and multiple automakers that would raise the average vehicle fuel efficiency of 50 miles per gallon by 2026. Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that the state will ban the sale of new gas-powered vehicles by 2035.