Good News: OSHA Can Still Issue Safety Standards
A couple of months ago, I wrote a piece about how industry associations are getting tired of suing OSHA to…
Kill OSHA: Then Shoot, Stab, Suffocate and Drown the Agency
I just finished a post about how a hidden provision of the Republican debt limit extortion bill would kill OSHA…
Republicans Weaponize Debt Limit Fight to Destroy Worker Protections
Republicans are coming after worker protections, in Congress and in the courts — yet again. This time in a little-noticed…
East Palestine Part 1: The Causes
Please excuse the length of this post. But once I went down the rabbit hole, I couldn’t get out. To…
East Palestine Part 2: Politics and the Road Ahead
Continued from Part 1: The Causes The Politics: Continued Warfare or a New Age of Bipartisanship? The politics of the…
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Environmental Protection Agency
Regulatory Process
Supreme Court
Supreme Court Threatens the Earth and Safe Workplaces
First they came for your voting rights. Next they came for your gun safety laws. Then they came for your…
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…
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…