In a budget document released Friday, the Trump Administration proposes to close the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board by October 2026. Since 1998, the agency has investigated hundreds of fires, explosions, leaks, and other disasters at chemical plants nationwide.

The board regularly publishes reports on its findings, along with videos in plain language that break down the root causes of chemical disasters. Its most recent reports detail a fatal 2024 explosion at a surfacing plant in Tennessee, three major leaks of toxic hydrogen fluoride that caused injuries at a chemical plant in Louisiana, and a follow-up to an investigation of a chemical fire at a plant in Georgia.

The Washington Post reported that the proposal to drop the board’s $14 million budget to zero is likely to get pushback from both Republicans and Democrats in Congress, as did previous attempts to eliminate its budget during Trump’s first term.