OSHA: What’s On Your Regulatory Agenda?
The Office of Management and Budget released its Spring (very, very late Spring) Regulatory Agenda yesterday. The Regulatory Agenda is…
EPA, Climate Change and Regulatory Certainty
A federal appeals court has blocked EPA’s delay of its methane pollution rule. The court says that the reasoning EPA…
Chemical Standards
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Environmental Protection Agency
Regulations and Standards
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…
Chemical Standards
Congressional Review Act
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
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…
Industry calls EPA Proposal to Ban Bathtub Stripper a “Blatant and raw power grab”
Seventeen workers dying between 2000 and 2015 isn’t enough to convince the methylene chloride industry that more is needed than…
Alex Acosta
Beryllium
Deconstructing the Administrative State
Department of Labor
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Regulatory Process
Silica
Trump
Trump Administration Continues to Attack Worker Protections
The New York Times takes another look at Obama administration worker protections that are being “revisited” in the early months…
Acosta Reassures Business Community: “The Labor Department will roll back regulations.”
Responding to withering criticism from his friends in the business community for allowing the Obama administration’s “fiduciary rule” to go…
BREAKING: OSHA Announces Delay of Recordkeeping Rule
Probably hoping no one would notice, OSHA today subtly buried an “Update” deep in its website, announcing that it intends…
Alex Acosta
Chemical Standards
Construction
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Silica
Industry Petitions OSHA to Reopen Silica Standard
Representatives of the construction industry, as well as general industry have petitioned Labor Secretary Alex Acosta to reopen the silica…
Agriculture
Department of Labor
International
Mine Safety
MSHA
Office of Management and Budget
OSHA
Regulations and Standards
Short Stuff
Short Stuff: Information to Make Your Life More Interesting
Raw Sewage and A Foot per Worker: The Labor Department filed a lawsuit against G Farms in El Mirage, Arizona…