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DOL Issues Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda

September 4, 2025 Jordan Barab

Fall is in the air, so it’s high time for the Trump administration to issue its Spring 2025 Regulatory Agenda…

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BP Rides – and Fails –Again

July 3, 2024 Rena Steinzor

Our purpose is reimagining energy for people and our planet. We want to help the world reach net zero and…

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Can Good Journalism Save Workers’ Lives?

November 1, 2023 Jordan Barab

Unions are struggling. Workers are intimidated. Congress is comatose. The courts are rigged. OSHA is too small and drastically underfunded.…

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The West Fertilizer Explosion Ten Years Later

April 17, 2023 Jordan Barab

It was exactly a ten years ago tonight that that my wife called me from another room to say she…

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OSHA Reschedules Chemical Plant Safety Stakeholder Meeting

September 20, 2022 Jordan Barab

For those of you interested in commenting on OSHA’s update of its aging process safety management standard, the agency has…

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OSHA Plans Chemical Plant Safety Stakeholder Meeting

September 1, 2022 Jordan Barab

September is shaping up to be chemical plant safety month. First, EPA has scheduled public hearings for September 26, 27,…

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EPA Issues Chemical Plant Safety Proposal; Where is OSHA?

August 26, 2022 Jordan Barab

In the next round of a years-long game of regulatory ping-pong — with potentially catastrophic consequences — the Environmental Protection…

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OSHA’s Spring Regulatory Agenda: Meh!

June 23, 2022 Jordan Barab

The White House has released its Spring 2022 Regulatory Agenda and I’m not jumping for joy. At this rate, it…

Fertilizer Plant Fire Raises Memories of Tragedy and Regulatory Failures

February 4, 2022 Jordan Barab

The Winston-Salem fertilizer plant fire raises difficult questions on our failure to issue adequate regulatory protections for workers and communities…

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OSHA-MSHA Regulatory Agendas Released

December 10, 2021 Jordan Barab

For regulatory nerds, no days are more exciting than when the White House Office of Regulatory and Interagency Affairs (OIRA)…

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