The AFL-CIO is urging key members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reject a Republican draft discussion bill aimed at making numerous industry-requested changes to TSCA, arguing the legislation as written “would put American workers, their children, spouses and neighbors in danger.”
September 16, 2026
The House has approved a fiscal year 2026 spending bill that includes funds for OSHA and other worker-safety agencies at levels roughly the same as FY25, after House and Senate appropriators reached a deal on funding for several federal departments that rejects President Trump’s efforts to cut or nearly eliminate worker-protection funding.
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The Labor Department (DOL) is urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an OSHA citation against a Louisiana-based oil and gas drilling specialty contractor, arguing an administrative law judge (ALJ) correctly found the company exposed its employees to a hazard when a pipe ruptured at a gas well in south Texas in 2022.
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House Judiciary Committee Republicans are championing legislation that would prohibit lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of artificial stone slabs for injuries caused by exposure to respirable silica during third-party fabrication, arguing hundreds of lawsuits in California courts are threatening to put American companies out of business.
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OSHA is extending by four months compliance deadlines in its revised hazardous communications standard (HCS) because officials are still crafting guidance for both the regulated community and agency personnel, a move that is drawing praise from chemical distributors that have been pressing for the pending guidance.
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OSHA is urging the 4th Circuit to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of South Carolina’s challenge to the agency’s requirement that states match annual increases to federal minimum and maximum OSH Act penalties, arguing the state missed the deadline to file its suit.
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OSHA has corrected “several inadvertent errors” in its 2024 hazard communication standard (HCS) that it identified following a previous technical amendment to the rule, including minor errors in the regulatory text as well as appendices to the standard.
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The 6th Circuit in an unpublished opinion has remanded to the Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission (OSHRC) two contested items of an OSHA citation against a paper company after finding an administrative law judge (ALJ) failed to cite adequate evidence to support her conclusions that OSHA correctly issued the citations.
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A panel of three 5th Circuit judges appeared skeptical during Jan. 8 oral argument of the Labor Department’s (DOL) position that OSHA properly cited ExxonMobil for violations of reporting requirements when the company failed to record the mental health diagnosis of an employee following a December 2021 explosion and fire.
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A recent decision from an Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission administrative law judge (ALJ) that vacated citations against a company operating a marine terminal in North Carolina provides additional clarity on statute of limitations arguments, even though the citations were overturned on other grounds, legal experts say.
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