Interest Group Further Presses Heat Illness Concerns, Unlikely To Sue OSHA Over Petition Denial

Public Citizen says OSHA's recent denial of its petition for a heat illness standard will result in increased pressure on the federal agency as well as stepped-up activity on the issue in state plan states. But the group is highly unlikely to sue OSHA over the petition denial, as it has not typically done so in cases where a petition was denied outright, as opposed to unanswered, an official with the group says. The public interest group recently issued a sharply worded statement about OSHA's denial of the petition, suggesting that the agency was ignoring expert consensus regarding heat-relate