August 7, 2014 at 07:28 PM
The Environmental Protection Agency inspector general, who has oversight of the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB), is one of 47 IGs who signed a letter to lawmakers raising strong concerns that several agencies allegedly tried to block the inspectors' investigative activities, and citing as a key example a long-running legal dispute with CSB leadership over a probe into accusations of whistleblower retaliation.