May 2026
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OSHA Advisory Committee Raises Concerns Over Agency’s Respirator Standard Overhaul
As part of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s July 1, 2025 deregulatory efforts (read our client alert summarizing the actions here), the agency proposed a series of changes to chemical-specific respirator standards affecting multiple hazardous substances including asbestos, benzene, lead, cadmium, and ethylene oxide. The proposals were primarily aimed at consolidating substance-specific respirator requirements… Continue reading
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EPA Proposes New Definition of “Begin Actual Construction” for NSR Permitting
Under EPA’s New Source Review (“NSR”) program, an owner or operator must obtain a permit prior to commencing construction of a new major source or a major modification to an existing source. The NSR permitting process can be lengthy, often taking a year or more to complete with complex air dispersion modeling, control technology analyses,… Continue reading