The confirmation of former UPS and Amazon executive David Keeling to head OSHA and long-time Republican operative Wayne Palmer to oversee mine safety presages a stepped up assault on worker safety ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has hired numerous former lobbyists and industry insiders who now work on chemical regulation, emission limits and other rules.
The FDA's top drug regulator, Dr. George Tidmarsh, quit after federal officials began reviewing "serious concerns about his ...
For the fourth time, President Donald J. Trump has proposed eliminating the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), an independent body that investigates the causes of significant ...

Power play

As the president governs by executive order, the Supreme Court faces one of its biggest tests of presidential power in decades.
Gaines' account echoes similar ones from other HISD teachers, who say raising concerns or filing complaints can lead to ...
Coal miners, their family members, and union representatives rallied outside of the US Department of Labor’s headquarters in ...
WASHINGTON, DC – US President Donald Trump won the 2024 election partly on the promise of a new “golden age” for American ...
Two workers were killed Friday after a large crane collapsed while working on an industrial job site on the Mystic River in ...
When federal funding expired Oct. 1, the U.S. Dept. of Labor triggered its contingency plan, effectively halting most oversight functions at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The plan ...
A cloudy, rust-colored liquid plume, roughly the size of a football field, flowed into the Mississippi River last week out of ...
In a rally outside the U.S. Department of Labor, miners and their advocates stressed the need to limit silica exposure and ...