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Public Citizen Chief Says Group Was Gearing Up To Sue OSHA Over Silica Rule


December 17, 2013 at 08:19 PM
Public Citizen was planning a lawsuit to force the Obama administration's hand on OSHA's long-sought regulatory proposal to clamp down on worker exposures to crystalline silica and probably would have gone forward with the suit if the agency had not recently issued a proposed rule tackling the issue, the consumer interest group's president tells Inside OSHA Online in an exclusive interview.

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