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Industry Urges Congress To Block Silica Rule As OSHA Starts Enforcement


October 27, 2017 at 06:34 PM
Construction industry groups have been lobbying Congress to block implementation of the Obama OSHA's final rule strengthening the limits for worker exposure to silica for the first time in decades, through a budget rider that would gut funding for enforcement, though the Trump OSHA is moving ahead with enforcing the rule in construction.

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