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The June 23, 2018, deadline for general industry and maritime-sector compliance with requirements in OSHA’s Occupational Exposure to Respirable Crystalline Silica rule (March 25, 2016, FR) is less than 3 months away. Employers with workplaces that contain respirable silica should understand their obligations and meet them in time.
Judge Jeffrey S. White of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has ordered the EPA to require industry to be in compliance with the formaldehyde emissions limits for composite wood products the Agency established in its 2016 final rule (Formaldehyde Rule, December 12, 2016, Federal Register (FR)) by June 1, 2018.
One year after the Trump EPA announced that it was reconsidering the Obama EPA’s January 2017 Mid-Term Evaluation (MTE), that found that its final greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions standards for model year (MY) 2022–2025 light-duty vehicles (October 15, 2012, FR) were appropriate, the Agency has issued a notice formally withdrawing that MTE and stating in […]
The four facilities subject to EPA’s 2002 National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for leather finishing operations received a clean bill of health following the Agency’s residual risk and technology review (RTR).
OSHA regulations are a “massive challenge” to small businesses in the homebuilding industry. Accordingly, OSHA should shift its emphasis from a “disproportionate” reliance on traditional enforcement and levying significant monetary penalties to compliance assistance.
Six years after receiving a petition from representatives of hotel workers, California OSHA (Cal/OSHA) has issued a final workplace and health regulation to prevent and reduce work-related injuries to housekeepers in the hotel and hospitality industry.
In an opinion handed down February 16, 2018, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit addressed more than a dozen contentions that the EPA had misapplied its Clean Air Act (CAA) authority in an Obama-era final rule implementing the 2008 National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone. The rule, […]
In response to industry petitions, the EPA is proposing two sets of technical amendments to Clean Air Act (CAA) regulations governing petroleum refineries.
The EPA has issued what it calls “narrow” amendments to two provisions of the Agency’s 2016 Clean Air Act New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for the oil and natural gas (O&G) sector (June 3, 2016, FR). The provisions affect delay of repair requirements when emissions leaks or fugitive emissions are detected as well as emissions […]
The 2016 amendments to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) expanded access to chemical confidential business information (CBI) that businesses are required by law to provide to the EPA. TSCA Section 14, which deals in general with the CBI, now includes three categories of people who are entitled to receive the CBI. The EPA recently […]