Court rules Exxon must turn over refinery blast info to CSB
Investigation stalled due to litigation
In a unanimous decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that Exxon Mobil Oil Corp. must produce information to the U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) related to a tank filled with hydrofluoric acid at the site of a 2015 oil refinery explosion in Torrance, California.
The decision reverses a lower Court ruling that the information was not sufficiently relevant to the CSB’s investigation.