A federal judge in Texas has granted the Trump administration's request to moot the Obama OSHA's defense of the agency's final rule overhauling its worker injury and illness record-keeping regulation, finding that the industry plaintiffs challenging the rule have raised new issues that merit review, and setting a deadline for the parties to file a new briefing schedule.
September 17, 2026
President Donald Trump signed Feb. 24 a new executive order (EO) that requires OSHA and other agencies to each designate regulatory reform officers and establish a regulatory reform task force with the goal of identifying existing regulations for repeal or modification, expanding his administration's deregulatory architecture given the issue's priority.
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Backed by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), a key lawmaker has introduced a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to undo the Obama OSHA's final rule clarifying that employers have a continuing obligation to record employee injuries and illnesses, arguing the rule inappropriately circumvents the judiciary and fails to improve safety.
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Neil Gorsuch, President Donald Trump's nominee for the open Supreme Court seat, could significantly reduce OSHA's ability to quickly change policies, given his skepticism of the Chevron legal doctrine that grants agencies deference to interpret vague statutes, industry attorneys say.
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The Trump administration, in a joint filing with industry plaintiffs, is asking a federal court for permission to file a new motion for summary judgment that would reverse the Obama OSHA's defense of the agency's worker injury and illness record-keeping regulation, filed in the waning days of the prior administration.
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EPA's plan to assess 10 chemicals for possible regulation under the revised Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is sparking debate between the chemical industry and environmentalists over the substances' uses the agency should weigh in risk reviews, with advocates urging EPA to consider more data, and industry arguing that would stall reviews.
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The Trump OSHA and various industries are seeing mixed success in efforts to delay suits over Obama-era OSHA rules in order to give the new administration time to weigh whether to continue defending the policies, with one appellate court rejecting industry's bid to delay a suit over the agency's silica rule but OSHA winning delays in other cases.
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Chemical, agricultural, and other industry officials plan to press Scott Pruitt -- President Donald Trump's nominee for next EPA administrator -- to pursue a rulemaking repealing controversial Obama-era revisions to the agency's facility safety program if a Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to undo the changes fails to advance in Congress.
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Industry attorneys expect that OSHA's final rule aimed at limiting slips, trips and falls in the workplace will survive the Trump administration's rollback of Obama-era rules because much of the rule has industry backing and it has drawn few legal challenges, though courts are weighing whether to consolidate several pending cases over it.
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Chemical manufacturers are urging EPA to further delay implementation of the agency's final rule revising its industrial facility safety program, which critics say encroaches on OSHA jurisdiction, arguing additional time is vital to give Congress time to weigh a Congressional Review Act (CRA) disapproval resolution that could undo the entire rule.
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Worker safety measures that EPA is seeking input on as part of its draft Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) rules to limit certain uses of three chemicals could become a model for use in other TSCA risk rules given the revised toxics law’s mandate to consider risks to susceptible subpopulations such as workers, industry sources say.
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A coalition of construction industry and other groups is broadening its suit over the Obama OSHA's worker injury and illness reporting rule, arguing that provisions for public disclosure of worker injury data change agency policy on confidential business information (CBI) without justification and violate companies' First Amendment rights.
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Labor unions, environmentalists and other pro-regulation advocates are suing over President Donald Trump's executive order (EO) that requires agencies to balance each new rule they issue by identifying two existing rules for repeal, saying the mandate violates the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act.
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The White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) has issued guidance implementing President Donald Trump's regulatory review executive order (EO) that will tee up battles between OSHA and other agencies over how to offset the cost of new rules, by declaring that an agency can request cost-saving offsets from a separate agency.
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President Donald Trump's recent executive order (EO) requiring federal agencies to eliminate two existing rules for every new one will force OSHA to stop issuing new rules not required under federal law, and likely prompt the agency to instead revisit existing regulations to ease compliance or issue guidance, an industry attorney says.
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A federal judge is allowing an industry challenge to OSHA's 2013 memo interpreting federal law as allowing union officials to accompany agency inspectors onto non-unionized work sites to proceed, backing companies' procedural arguments that the memo changes existing policy, though the judge rejects an industry claim that the memo exceeds agency authority.
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Congress appears poised to repeal the Obama administration's policy requiring federal agencies to consider worker safety and other labor law violations in procurement decisions just as the Justice Department (DOJ) is asking a federal court to delay litigation over the policy to give incoming Trump officials time to consider it.
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Chemical and other manufacturers are hailing the recently introduced Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution to undo EPA's rule revising its Risk Management Plan (RMP) facility safety program, which critics say encroaches on OSHA jurisdiction, though it is unclear whether GOP leaders will give the measure floor time.
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Labor officials are arguing President Donald Trump's recent executive order (EO) requiring OSHA and other agencies to eliminate two existing rules for every new one, and the prospect he will back lawmakers' push to eliminate an Obama policy seeking to prevent federal contractors from violating labor laws, shows the new president failing workers.
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Worker safety advocates are decrying Republican lawmakers' push to repeal the Obama administration policy requiring federal agencies to consider worker safety and other labor law violations in procurement, saying it is likely the start of “a sustained assault” by the GOP and the Trump administration on worker protections.
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