Supremes Hear OSHA Case: To Block or not to Block
So of course everyone is dying to know what a non-lawyer like me thinks about yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments about…
Data
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Recordkeeping
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
OSHA Announces Rollback of Recordkeeping Requirements
OSHA today released the text of its partial rollback of the Obama administrations "electronic recordkeeping" rule that requires some employers…
Beryllium
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Journalism
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Weakening Beryllium Protections: How Business Influence Affects Regulatory Process
A new Reuters investigative piece describes how industry influence has gotten OSHA to weaken worker protections from exposure to beryllium.
There He Goes Again: Kavanaugh Still Doesn’t Get It
Good news! Good News! Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for American workers to expect to come…
Kavanaugh’s Lies About SeaWorld: Annotated
Allow me to be blunt: Judge Brett Kavanaugh lied about the SeaWorld case during his Senate Confirmation testimony last week…
Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination
Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…
Agriculture
Brett Kavanaugh
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Enforcement
Environmental Protection Agency
Short Stuff
Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff
Poison Food, Poisoned Workers: Eyal Press of The Intercept writes about chronic health problems that have plagued Jessica Robertson since she began…
Agriculture
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Environmental Protection Agency
Regulations and Standards
“Stop Poisoning Children and Farm Workers” Court Tells EPA
Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…
Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story
OSHA proposed last week to roll back parts of the “Electronic Recordkeeping” regulation that the Obama administration issued in 2016.…
Kavanaugh Watch: Bad Forecast for Worker and Environmental Protections
And in our continuing series of posts about why Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment to the Supreme Court would be a disaster…