The Gang That Couldn’t (de)Regulate Straight
President Trump frequently boasts about “eliminating more regulations in our first year than any administration in history.” This is supposedly…
For the Oil Industry: A Perfect Storm….of Favors
The holiday season just keeps on giving for the oil and gas industry: December 25, 2017: Wall St. Journal reports…
NY Times Story on Regulatory Policy Again Forgets Workers, Communities
The New York Times, in another rather questionable Front Page article, The Trump Effect: Business, Anticipating Less Regulation, Loosens Purse…
NY Times Misses the Point on “Regulatory Fatigue”
Buried in paragraph 6 of an article on Page 11 of today’s New York Times — right next to an…
Republicans Find New Ways to Roll Back Protections
Just what you needed One more thing to keep you up at night. One of things we complained about at…
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EPA: “A Corporate Takeover of the Agency”
We read the painful stories in the Sunday papers so you don’t have to. Today a story about the corporate…
Breaking: OSHA Launches Rollback of Beryllium Worker Protections
Less than half a year after workers finally received long overdue protections against deadly beryllium dust, the Trump administration has…
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EPA “Reconsiders” Whether to Protect Communities Surrounding Chemical Plants
But as the ….government has promoted the sector’s rapid growth, it has struggled with its impact on the environment. The…
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Why Workers Wait So Long For OSHA Standards (And How Trump Is Making It Worse)
Attached here is an article I wrote for Law 360 about OSHA’s painfully slow process for issuing standards that protect…