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Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] Ethanol sensor?
Date: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 at 12:56:32 PM
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Subject: [DCHAS-L] EHS Job Opening: Draper, Cambridge MA
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 16:21:17 -0400
Author: Ralph Stuart

From: Daniel Kuespert <000015c40c7f7b23-dmarc-request**At_Symbol_Here**LISTS.PRINCETON.EDU>
Subject: Re: [DCHAS-L] CSB Distress
Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2022 19:31:19 +0000
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I looked into the situation of the Board a while ago, reading over their public documents. It appears that her assistant was a political appointee (a "Schedule C" in Washington-ese) from the previous administration who managed to burrow his way into the civil service in a Senior Executive Service jobÑwhich isn't really something that happens routinely.


While Dr. Lemos was the whole board, it put out a very strange Board Order that looks as if it pretty much centralized power in the Chair and relegated the other Board members to being mouthpieces. I'm wondering, given the wording of Lemos' resignation, whether there was lots of pushback from the new Board members on that.

Here's hoping that the President will fill the remaining positions with chemists and chemical engineers...

Regards,
Dan

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On Jun 14, 2022, at 12:26, Ralph Stuart <ralph**At_Symbol_Here**RSTUARTCIH.ORG> wrote:

Additional information can be found in the C&EN stories on the resignation of Lemos (and appointment of a new member, Catherine J. K. Sandoval) at

Chemical safety board chair resigns
Katherine Lemos served as only board member for 2 years
https://cen.acs.org/safety/industrial-safety/Chemical-safety-board-chair-resigns/100/web/2022/06

This article notes that "Complicated management problems have plagued the board since it was first funded in the late 1990s."

Law professor nominated to Chemical Safety Board
Catherine Sandoval investigated incidents as a California Public Utilities commissioner
https://cen.acs.org/safety/industrial-safety/Latina-law-professor-nominated-Chemical/100/web/2022/06

- Ralph

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