The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued its first-ever corporate disclosure policy encouraging criminal violators to come forward and win “rewards” for self-disclosing wrongdoing, a shift that better aligns with the Trump administration’s broader compliance stance at OSHA and other agencies, industry attorneys say.
September 16, 2026
Dawn Reeves
Dawn Reeves is a senior correspondent at Inside EPA who specializes in climate, clean energy and clean air policy issues, and has been on the beat since 2001. Before coming to D.C., she was a print and radio reporter in Southwest Florida where she was the local host for NPR’s “All Things Considered.” A St. Louis native, she earned a BA and MA from Webster University.
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Jeffrey Clark Nov. 18 ended his tenure as acting administrator of the White House office that reviews rules from OSHA and other agencies at the end of the 300 days allowed by the Federal Vacancies Reform Act (FVRA) and is now serving as the office’s associate administrator, an Office of Management and Budget (OMB) spokeswoman says.
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Conservative scholars are expressing skepticism that President Donald Trump can successfully compel OSHA and other federal agencies to revoke 10 rules for every new rule issued, after the White House released guidance explaining how to comply with the president’s steppe-up deregulatory effort.
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President Donald Trump has signed a series of executive orders (EOs) targeting federal employees at OSHA and other agencies, including measures stripping many workers of civil service protections, freezing new hiring, overhauling existing hiring practices and ending work-from-home allowances.
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Russell Vought, President-elect Donald Trump’s nominee to run the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) for a second time, is expected to push a series of measures from the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 deregulatory blueprint for the new administration to slash OSHA and other agencies’ budgets, as well as wider efforts to scale back the executive branch civil service.
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A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit had tough questions for both sides in high-profile arguments Nov. 4 as the panel reconsiders its original ruling in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, the case the Supreme Court used to overrule Chevron deference earlier this year.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit has set a quick schedule to reconsider its decision upholding a National Marine Fisheries Commission (NMFS) rule after the Supreme Court vacated the court’s 2022 holding when it overturned the longstanding Chevron deference doctrine, setting up an early test of how lower courts will apply the new precedent.
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Legal experts are warning that the Supreme Court’s recent decision holding that defendants are entitled to jury trials when contesting Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) administrative enforcement actions seeking civil penalties could tee up challenges to many agencies’ programs, and potentially make them less aggressive even if those suits do not succeed.
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Two conservative lawyers are expecting the Supreme Court will side with petitioners and expand the six-year statute of limitations to bring lawsuits challenging OSHA and other federal agencies’ actions under the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) after the court heard oral arguments this week in a high-profile administrative law case.
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The Supreme Court’s pending decision on the future of the Chevron doctrine could imperil thousands of rules from OSHA and other agencies that have relied on the doctrine since it was first articulated in 1984, experts say, though the scope of the decision, expected in June, and its precise effects, will depend on how it is written.
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