A federal district court in West Virginia has stayed a challenge by a pair of coal miners to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) layoffs of most of the staff at a key worker-safety agency last year, after the miners and HHS jointly asked for a pause in the litigation because HHS has now rescinded all the layoff notices.
September 16, 2026
Employer and industry groups are pressing California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) to scale back certain provisions of a long-overdue rule to update the agency’s first-aid kit requirements for general industry and construction companies, including requirements for additional protections for unique hazards and a new 3-4-minute time limit for employees to access kits.
Date:
The AFL-CIO is urging key members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee to reject a Republican draft discussion bill aimed at making numerous industry-requested changes to TSCA, arguing the legislation as written “would put American workers, their children, spouses and neighbors in danger.”
Date:
The House has approved a fiscal year 2026 spending bill that includes funds for OSHA and other worker-safety agencies at levels roughly the same as FY25, after House and Senate appropriators reached a deal on funding for several federal departments that rejects President Trump’s efforts to cut or nearly eliminate worker-protection funding.
Date:
EPA is poised to release its proposal scaling back the Biden administration’s Risk Management Program (RMP) rule, a measure that will spark heated debate as environmentalists charge the measure guts crucial protections from industrial incidents while industry groups say it is needed to end the “regulatory whiplash” that characterizes the policy.
Date:
EPA is poised to release its proposal scaling back the Biden administration’s Risk Management Program (RMP) rule, a measure that will spark heated debate as environmentalists charge the measure guts crucial protections from industrial incidents while industry groups say it is needed to end the “regulatory whiplash” that characterizes the policy.
Date:
The Labor Department (DOL) is urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an OSHA citation against a Louisiana-based oil and gas drilling specialty contractor, arguing an administrative law judge (ALJ) correctly found the company exposed its employees to a hazard when a pipe ruptured at a gas well in south Texas in 2022.
Date:
The Labor Department (DOL) is urging the D.C. Circuit to uphold an OSHA citation against a Louisiana-based oil and gas drilling specialty contractor, arguing an administrative law judge (ALJ) correctly found the company exposed its employees to a hazard when a pipe ruptured at a gas well in south Texas in 2022.
Date:
House Judiciary Committee Republicans are championing legislation that would prohibit lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of artificial stone slabs for injuries caused by exposure to respirable silica during third-party fabrication, arguing hundreds of lawsuits in California courts are threatening to put American companies out of business.
Date:
House Judiciary Committee Republicans are championing legislation that would prohibit lawsuits against manufacturers and sellers of artificial stone slabs for injuries caused by exposure to respirable silica during third-party fabrication, arguing hundreds of lawsuits in California courts are threatening to put American companies out of business.
Date: