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The U.S. Chemical Safety Board was slashed by Trump. Its backlog is piling up.

Before sunrise on a June morning in 2019, a section of pipe nearly five decades old ruptured at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery, spewing a cloud of flammable vapor that hung to the ground like a spectral fog. This story also appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer Within minutes, according to a surveillance video, a series […]