April 2026

April 9, 2026

OSHA Announces Enforcement Stay for COVID-19 Recordkeeping and Reporting Obligations

On March 31, 2026, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) published a memorandum updating its enforcement policy for COVID-19 recording and reporting obligations. Specifically, the agency announced that it is exercising its enforcement discretion to no longer cite employers for violations of 29 CFR 1904, in particular any employer’s failure to record COVID-19 cases… Continue reading

Environmental Law
April 5, 2026

EPA Includes Microplastics on Draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List

On April 2, 2026, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that the EPA has proposed to include microplastics as a priority contaminant group in its draft Sixth Contaminant Candidate List (“CCL 6”) under the Safe Drinking Water Act (“SDWA”). This would channel greater… Continue reading

Environmental Law