President Joe Biden is proposing $2.1 billion in fiscal year 2022 funding for OSHA and other Department of Labor (DOL) worker protection agencies, representing an increase of $304 million or 17 percent over the FY21 enacted level to ramp up enforcement and regulatory efforts to protect employees.
November 15, 2026
Anthony Lacey
Anthony Lacey was the Managing Editor of Inside EPA and Environment Next until April 2021. He joined Inside Washington Publishers in 2004 as an associate editor on Clean Air Report, and previously covered a wide range of news for the regional Hull Daily Mail newspaper in his home country of England. He grew up in the northeast of England and earned a bachelor’s degree in law from the University of London, and a higher education certificate in newspaper writing from the NCFE awarding organization.
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The Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), which aims to prevent fatalities and injuries at U.S. mines, is announcing more than $10.5 million in funding for states to provide training and retraining of mine operators and their employees, covering all aspects of mining including emergency preparedness and exposures to dust hazards.
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OSHA and the grain industry are floating a series of steps that owners of grain storage facilities should consider in order to reduce the risk of worker accidents and deaths, saying “common sense” measures might help reduce the increasing risk of entrapment and fatalities at the thousands of grain bins across the United States.
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A Department of Labor Office of Inspector General (OIG) report faulting OSHA for reducing workplace inspections during the COVID-19 pandemic highlights the need for the agency to swiftly develop an emergency temporary standard (ETS) to control the spread of the virus among employees, according to a top House Democrat.
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OSHA has signed an “alliance” with the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), which represents meat and turkey processors, aiming to reduce COVID-19 exposure risks for employees in meatpacking facilities -- the latest step in the agency’s approach to issuing sector-specific, non-binding guides in lieu of binding standards for the pandemic.
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State attorneys general (AGs) from 19 states and the District of Columbia are urging OSHA to tighten and make binding its guidance for how to reduce COVID-19 exposure risks at meatpacking plants, warning President Donald Trump that his order to keep the facilities open will boost infections without stricter mandatory requirements.
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is rejecting calls by Republicans and the business community to give employers liability protection from suits stemming from harmful workplace exposures to COVID-19 while renewing efforts to enact new OSHA requirements, which she says will provide liability protection if employers comply.
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A federal district court judge has dismissed a lawsuit by worker safety advocates aiming to require a meatpacking plant to apply OSHA guidance for reducing exposures to COVID-19, but advocates are already pursuing a formal rulemaking petition seeking to force the agency to issue an emergency standard for such facilities.
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Citing the respondent’s bankruptcy, appellate judges have rejected as moot OSHA’s suit that sought to reverse a ruling from the agency’s independent review panel that raised the bar for citing companies for “repeat” workplace safety rule violations, though the judges also vacated the underlying review panel ruling.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit is poised to hear oral argument May 6 in a closely watched suit over a decision by OSHA’s review panel upholding an enforcement action against an Oklahoma refiner for alleged process safety management (PSM) standard violations, which industry says unfairly expands the scope of the PSM.
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