The Labor Department (DOL) is appealing an OSHA review commission ruling that struck down a citation against a ship repair company for failing to conduct a hazard assessment to determine whether employee respirator use is “necessary,” a move that underscores the agency's long-standing effort to expand enforcement oversight of employee chemical exposures.
September 17, 2026
Officials in the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are defending its proposed swine slaughter rule from Democrats' and labor groups' charges that the measure's plan to increase line speeds and ease inspections jeopardizes workers' safety in an already high-risk industry.
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Officials in the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) are defending its proposed swine slaughter rule from Democrats' and labor groups' charges that the measure's plan to increase line speeds and ease inspections jeopardizes workers' safety in an already high-risk industry.
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Labor and food safety advocates are urging the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to drop its proposed rule that seeks to ease regulations and alter inspection procedures at swine processing facilities, charging the measure would increase risk of contamination and worker injuries and is likely unlawful.
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Labor and food safety advocates are urging the Agriculture Department’s (USDA) Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) to drop its proposed rule that seeks to ease regulations and alter inspection procedures at swine processing facilities, charging the measure would increase risk of contamination and worker injuries and is likely unlawful.
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The Consumer Product Safety Commission's (CPSC) recent guidance calling for product labels to warn of acute inhalation hazards of paint strippers containing methylene chloride could give EPA an alternative to calls for a first-time ban on some uses of the substance, such as industry calls to promote risk management options.
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The Trump administration has moved several Obama-era initiatives that it had previously shelved back onto OSHA's regulatory priorities list, including measures aimed at limiting harms to healthcare workers, first responders, and tree and landscape workers, as well as a chemical hazard communication standard.
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The Trump administration has moved several Obama-era initiatives that it had previously shelved back onto OSHA's regulatory priorities list, including measures aimed at limiting harms to healthcare workers, first responders, and tree and landscape workers, as well as a chemical hazard communication standard.
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Amid lobbying by families of consumers and workers killed from exposure to the paint-stripper chemical methylene chloride, EPA has reversed course, saying it now intends to soon finalize an Obama-era rule expected to ban certain uses of the substance, though environmentalists are cautioning that the final rule should preserve the proposed ban.
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Congress has approved a first-time Congressional Review Act (CRA) resolution repealing a years-old agency guidance, a measure that appears likely to bolster efforts by deregulatory opponents, who are currently seeking a precedent-setting court ruling that would allow them to enforce the law's mandate that agencies submit such documents to Congress for approval or disapproval.
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