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In a maneuver intended to fortify its greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year (MY) 2022–2025 cars and light-duty trucks, the EPA has issued a final midterm evaluation (MTE) of the appropriateness of those standards 16 months before the Agency’s self-imposed deadline for delivery.
You may be aware that climate change is affecting sea levels, weather patterns, and animal habitats—but have you thought about how it could affect the hazards your workers are exposed to? Late last year, the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) updated its 2009 framework for identifying climate-related occupational hazards based on review […]
Yesterday we looked briefly at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) criteria for deciding when it will cite multiple employers at a single worksite for the same hazardous condition. Today we’ll take a closer look at the different categories of employers that OSHA may cite.
E. Scott Pruitt, Donald Trump’s nominee to lead the EPA, began the afternoon session of his hearing before the Senate and Environment and Public Works Committee by noting three additional legal actions he has initiated against oil companies in Oklahoma.
While a new labor secretary has been nominated by President Donald Trump, no one is talking about who might be chosen to head OSHA. Find out what the acting OSHA boss had to say about the future of the agency.
E. Scott Pruitt, Oklahoma’s attorney general (AG) and Donald Trump’s choice to head the EPA, says he believes that carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from human activity are a factor in climate change and that the Agency has an important role to play in regulating those emissions. Pruitt also said he respects EPA’s CO2 endangerment finding, […]
On June 18, 2016, workers for three different employers were troubleshooting a problem with the drill string at an oil well in Watford City, North Dakota, when a hydrocarbon release resulted in an explosion and flash fire. One worker was killed, three workers were injured—and all three employers were cited by the Occupational Safety and […]
Even as OSHA faces ongoing legal action over its electronic recordkeeping and antiretaliation standard, the agency has issued recommended practices to help employers create an environment where employees feel comfortable speaking up. Get more here.
In a proposal that will likely be viewed by the new administration as another attack by the Obama administration on fossil fuels, the EPA is seeking to add natural gas processing (NGP) facilities to the industrial sectors that must report under Section 313 of the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), better known as […]
In a FR notice, the EPA has indicated its intention to begin rulemaking that may impose financial assurance requirements to ensure that sufficient funds are available to clean up hazardous waste generated by three industrial sectors: (1) chemical manufacturing; (2) petroleum and coal products manufacturing; and (3) electric power generation, transmission, and distribution.