CSB Asks Appellate Court To Back Broad Subpoena On 'Potential' Releases

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's (CSB) is asking a federal appellate court to grant it broad power to subpoena documents related to “potential” releases at facilities where it is investigating industrial incidents, a move that a major refiner is resisting, charging it amounts to an unlawful expansion of the board's powers. Justice Department lawyers earlier this month asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit to review a district court order that rejected portions of...