OIG Finds Spending Violations By Former CSB Chair, Boosting Rollback Push

EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) says the former chair of the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), who was the board’s only member for over a year, violated spending rules, potentially bolstering Biden appointees’ rollback of policies she enacted giving the CSB chair new unilateral authority including on certain spending decisions. OIG’s June 28 report on its investigation into actions by Katherine Lemos, who served as CSB’s chair from 2020 until her resignation in July 2022 and functioned as a “quorum of one” for most of that time, says the watchdog office “substant