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Supreme Court Threatens the Earth and Safe Workplaces

Jul 1, 2022 Jordan Barab

First they came for your voting rights. Next they came for your gun safety laws. Then they came for your…

COVID-19 Deconstructing the Administrative State Supreme Court

Supremes Hear OSHA Case: To Block or not to Block

Jan 8, 2022 Jordan Barab

So of course everyone is dying to know what a non-lawyer like me thinks about yesterday’s Supreme Court arguments about…

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OSHA Announces Rollback of Recordkeeping Requirements

Jan 24, 2019 Jordan Barab

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

Jan 22, 2019 Jordan Barab

A new Reuters investigative piece describes how industry influence has gotten OSHA to weaken worker protections from exposure to beryllium.

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There He Goes Again: Kavanaugh Still Doesn’t Get It

Sep 14, 2018 Jordan Barab

Good news! Good News! Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh thinks it’s perfectly reasonable for American workers to expect to come…

Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA

Kavanaugh’s Lies About SeaWorld: Annotated

Sep 10, 2018 Jordan Barab

Allow me to be blunt: Judge Brett Kavanaugh lied about the SeaWorld case during his Senate Confirmation testimony last week…

Brett Kavanaugh Deconstructing the Administrative State Regulations and Standards

Doing Harm in the Name of Liberty: Lisa Heinzerling on Kavanaugh’s Nomination

Sep 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Georgetown Professor of Law Lisa Heinzerling has always been a fresh voice in defending workplace, environmental and consumer protections against…

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Dispatches from the Front Lines of the Battle for Workplace Safety: Short Stuff

Aug 15, 2018 Jordan Barab

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

Aug 9, 2018 Jordan Barab

Every day we read about how EPA or OSHA announced their intention to roll back this protection, or failed to…

Deconstructing the Administrative State OSHA Recordkeeping Regulations and Standards

Nice Try: OSHA’s Rollback of the Recordkeeping Rule–The Real Story

Aug 1, 2018 Jordan Barab

OSHA proposed last week to roll back parts of the “Electronic Recordkeeping” regulation that the Obama administration issued in 2016.…

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