The Bush admin is on its way out and strict workplace toxicity regulations may be going with it. Political appointees at the Department of L

For an agency so widely feared and demonized by American business, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration is a relative pushover.

A long-delayed government epidemiological study of possible ties between diesel exhaust and lung cancer in miners may finally be published t

Toxic exposures on the job cause the premature deaths of some 49,000 Americans each year, but the Occupational Safety and Health Administrat

An Occupational Safety and Health Administration program meant to ferret out employers that under report workplace injuries is honing its fo

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration reduces virtually all proposed fines as an incentive for companies to fix workplace safety

Mining industry urges feds to reward safety with fewer inspections

WASHINGTON, May 15, 2002 — The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, nearing the end of a lengthy investigation, has conclude

WASHINGTON, April 11, 2002 — The Bush administration quietly shelved a proposal to tighten regulations on a group of hazardous chemicals des

Citing a Center for Public Integrity investigation of BP refineries having the most egregious safety violations in the industry, Democratic