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What Is It With The Republican Party And Toxicity? Why Are they So Drawn To Poisons?
DownWithTyranny! — ... It's a slow news day but the NY Times piped in on yet more extremely antisocial tendencies among Republicans today as well. This time they're working into the wee hours of the night to implement a new rule to further damage American working families before Obama can stop them. Mitch McConnell's traitorous wife beard, a puppet of the Chinese government, has ordered the Labor Department to cement a rule in place that "would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job." ...

Workplace Safety
Political Animal — Workplace Safety From the NYT : "The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job." "The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze "industry-by-industry evidence" of employees' exposure to it during their working lives. The proposal would, in many cases, add a step ...

Workplace Safety
Obsidian Wings — ... by hilzoy From the NYT: "The Labor Department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by President-elect Barack Obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job." "The rule, which has strong support from business groups, says that in assessing the risk from a particular substance, federal agencies should gather and analyze "industry-by-industry evidence" of employees' exposure to it during ...

Bush’s last-minute rule gutting worker protections may violate his own guidelines.
Think Progress — ... The Labor Department is attempting to complete a rule which “would add a step to the lengthy process of developing standards to protect workers’ health” and would thus make it more difficult to regulate toxic substances and chemicals that affect workers on the job. The New York Times notes that this proposal may violate the White House’s own memorandum: ...

environmental news story sunday
skippy the bush kangaroo — bush aides rush to enact a safety rule obama opposes. the labor department is racing to complete a new rule, strenuously opposed by president-elect barack obama, that would make it much harder for the government to regulate toxic substances and hazardous chemicals to which workers are exposed on the job. - nytimes ...

Fratto Whitewashes Bush’s Midnight Regulatory Blitz As ‘Transparent,’ ‘Routine,’ And ‘Responsible’
Think Progress — As ThinkProgress has documented, President Bush is pushing an array of 11th hour regulations in his final months. In a USA Today op-ed today, White House Deputy Press Secretary Tony Fratto defends the practice, claiming that the “midnight” regulations are, in fact, “transparent” and “responsible”: The record will show a slight increase, but a relatively steady pace in the number of regulations finalized during the fall of this year, the overwhelming majority of which are routine and unremarkable. And instead of a spike of late regulations at the end, we ...