Congressional appropriators in newly released report language are directing EPA’s TSCA program to revise its standing memorandum of understanding (MOU) with OSHA to better clarify how the agencies coordinate on EPA’s workplace analyses and rules and for EPA to be more transparent in its TSCA new chemical reviews.
California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) is advancing this year high-profile worker-protection rules that are drawing close scrutiny from employer and employee advocacy groups, including legislatively required measures to prevent workplace violence, heat illness and harms from wildfire smoke.
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.
A new survey conducted by the National Safety Council (NSC) has found a strong connection between Long COVID symptoms and workplace injuries, prompting the organization to outline ways of mitigating the risks associated with the condition that can increase harms to workers.
A landmark agreement between labor unions and a paint manufacturer over Biden-era TSCA worker protection requirements for using trichloroethylene (TCE) is facing a potential challenge from EPA, which is pressing an appellate court to give it a chance to oppose the deal, which the agency says would require the court to set a new standard.
A court-appointed amicus curiae is urging the D.C. Circuit to reject the Labor Department’s (DOL) efforts to reverse several decisions from the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) that spurned the DOL secretary’s changes to health and safety citations in enforcement settlements with mining companies.
OSHA is weighing whether to seek rehearing of an 8th Circuit ruling that found the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) preempts OSHA from regulating worker safety around railcars, telling the court the decision “raises significant and complex issues concerning the respective responsibility of OSHA” and FRA.
OSHA is weighing whether to seek rehearing of an 8th Circuit ruling that found the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) preempts OSHA from regulating worker safety around railcars, telling the court the decision “raises significant and complex issues concerning the respective responsibility of OSHA” and FRA.
The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) is recommending that U.S. Steel conduct a siting evaluation and ensure that all documented facility siting hazards are mitigated even before the board completes its investigation of a fatal explosion at a Pennsylvania coke facility that is not subject to OSHA rules.
Multiple labor unions, along with environmental and public health groups, are urging key members of Congress not to reopen TSCA for further reforms that might weaken the law beyond reauthorizing EPA’s user fee authority, as they charge the chemical industry is lobbying legislators to weaken worker protections.