"The Trump administration eviscerated the only agency tasked with studying worker health and safety. Now, Republicans have revived a plan to stop OSHA “overreach.” Advocates fear it could further endanger workers."
"A warming climate exposes more and more workers to increasingly hotter conditions every year, yet soon after taking office, Donald Trump indefinitely froze a heat illness prevention rule proposed under the previous administration and gutted the only agency that studies workplace health and safety.
And on Thursday, a little more than a week after a new analysis placed 2025 on track to be the second-warmest year on record, House Republicans held a hearing that attacked the agency responsible for protecting worker health and safety as “burdensome.”
The Republican-dominated House Education and Workforce Committee’s Subcommittee on Workforce Protections called the hearing to review actions by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, or OSHA, under the Biden administration, said Chair Ryan Mackenzie (R-PA). The hearing will also “explore common-sense solutions that can return OSHA to fulfilling its purpose of advancing workplace safety,” Mackenzie said.
The hearing, titled “Reclaiming OSHA’s Mission: Ensuring Safety Without Overreach,” revisited the same ground covered in a hearing held by Republicans last year, called “Safeguarding Workers from OSHA’s Overreach and Skewed Priorities.”"
Liza Gross reports for Inside Climate News May 15, 2025.
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