OSHA’s construction-sector advisory panel is rejecting key deregulatory measures the agency is planning for the sector, unanimously opposing a plan to rescind the construction illumination standard while narrowly opposing plans to eliminate medical evaluation requirements for certain respirators and make changes to chemical-specific standards.
The D.C. Circuit has dismissed the Labor Department’s (DOL) attempt to preserve broad authority over enforcement of mine safety standards, finding it lacks jurisdiction to hear a pair of consolidated cases on the issue because the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) has not yet issued final decisions.
The D.C. Circuit has dismissed the Labor Department’s (DOL) attempt to preserve broad authority over enforcement of mine safety standards, finding it lacks jurisdiction to hear a pair of consolidated cases on the issue because the Federal Mine Safety and Health Review Commission (FMSHRC) has not yet issued final decisions.
Two labor unions have dropped their challenges to a Biden-era TSCA rule phasing out most uses of the solvent trichloroethylene (TCE), saying their concerns are better addressed through a planned rulemaking but that they will remain in the consolidated litigation as intervenors supporting the agency.
D.C. Circuit judges focused their questions at March 30 oral argument on case-specific issues in an oil and gas drilling specialty contractor’s challenge to an OSHA citation stemming from a 2022 accident where a pipe ruptured at a gas well in south Texas, rather than engage with the firm’s broader challenge to the General Duty Clause.
D.C. Circuit judges focused their questions at March 30 oral argument on case-specific issues in an oil and gas drilling specialty contractor’s challenge to an OSHA citation stemming from a 2022 accident where a pipe ruptured at a gas well in south Texas, rather than engage with the firm’s broader challenge to the General Duty Clause.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued its first-ever corporate disclosure policy encouraging criminal violators to come forward and win “rewards” for self-disclosing wrongdoing, a shift that better aligns with the Trump administration’s broader compliance stance at OSHA and other agencies, industry attorneys say.
As the Trump administration works to revise Biden-era TSCA risk management rules for carbon tetrachloride (CTC or CCl4) and perchloroethylene (perc or PCE), EPA is proposing to extend compliance deadlines for workplace exposure requirements until June 2027.
A California lawmaker is pursuing legislation to require the Cal/OSHA standards board to adopt new standards to protect outdoor workers from “transboundary” pollution, citing hazards posed by untreated sewage and industrial wastewater that crosses the border from Baja California in Mexico.
A coalition of construction sector groups is urging OSHA to allow formal comment on any recommendations that an agency advisory group may make on several pending deregulatory proposals, including medical evaluation requirements in respiratory protection and specific chemical rules.