OSHA Announces Delay in Beryllium Standard Enforcement
Chronic beryllium disease is not a pretty thing. It causes scarring within the lungs, which eventually reduces the lungs’ ability…
OSHA Hearing: OSHA has Great Tools; Please Don’t Use Them. Hearing Report Part 3
The messages to OSHA from the Chamber of Commerce at this week’s House hearing were clear: Don’t (miss)use the General…
Congress
David Michaels
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House OSHA Hearing: What You Missed and What It Meant. Part 1
In a fiery rebuttal of Republican and employer attacks on OSHA during the Obama administration, former Assistant Secretary Dr. David…
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…
Alex Acosta
David Michaels
Department of Labor
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Environmental Protection Agency
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Year in Review
The Year In Review: 2017 Edition
With the end of 2017 comes the end of the 10th month of new, revised, rejuvenated version of Confined Space.…
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…
Trump’s War on Coal (Miners) Continues
When I noted last week that OSHA had come out of the new Fall 2017 Regulatory Agenda relatively unscathed, I…
Fall Regulatory Agenda Released: Not Much New For OSHA
Yesterday was that bi-annual event that all red-blooded Americans celebrate: the release of the new federal Regulatory Agenda; in this…