EPA has proposed a safety rule for pigment violet 29 (PV29) that would require facilities to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) to workers who could be exposed to its dry-powder form, but in a break from its other risk-management policies, the agency is not setting an exposure limit for the chemical or seeking to ban any of its uses.
September 16, 2026
EPA has signed its long-awaited final TSCA rules restricting uses of the industrial solvents trichloroethylene (TCE) and perchloroethylene (PCE) with several changes from the 2023 proposals, including a much more lenient “interim” workplace exposure limit for TCE and an extended deadline for facilities to adopt new worker protections for PCE.
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The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has completed review of final EPA rules seeking to limit workplace risks from three toxic solvents, teeing up their release in the last weeks of the Biden administration -- and likely efforts to narrow or reverse them after President-elect Donald Trump takes office.
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OSHA and the steel company claiming that Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) review of enforcement actions is unconstitutional have agreed to push the agency’s deadline to answer the novel litigation until February, leaving it to the incoming Trump administration to decide how -- or whether -- the government will contest those arguments.
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OSHA is giving stakeholders another two weeks to file comments on its proposed heat safety standard, pushing the deadline from Dec. 30 into the new year -- though far sooner than the two months or more that many employer groups sought -- while also scheduling an online hearing on the rule for summer.
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Two employer attorneys say a New Jersey steel company’s bid to declare the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) unconstitutional poses legal questions that will likely require resolution by the Supreme Court -- though possibly only after similar cases make their way through multiple lower courts.
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A California roads authority is claiming that a Trump-era OSHA memo easing implementation of its scaffolding safety rule raised costs and introduced regulatory uncertainty for the state’s construction projects even though it is not directly bound by the policy, after the Biden administration argued that it lacks standing to challenge the letter in court.
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OSHA has sent for White House review a draft final rule based on its proposal to mandate that construction employers ensure workers have properly fitting personal protective equipment (PPE), though even if the agency manages to enact the policy before the end of the Biden administration it faces uncertain prospects under President-elect Donald Trump.
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A federal district judge has rejected a chemical manufacturer’s request to intervene in litigation setting deadlines for EPA to complete 20 overdue TSCA risk evaluations, ending the firm’s bid to block an imminent settlement that would require its final formaldehyde review by the end of December -- a timeline that industry has warned will improperly tie the incoming Trump administration to a flawed review and potentially force strict workplace limits.
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As President-elect Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, the direction of federal labor and safety policy faces a major upheaval, as he has pledged to sharply roll back a host of Biden-era regulations and would likely scale back OSHA’s work as he did during his first term.
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