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Feds Push to Ease Workplace Toxin Regs

Labor Dept. seeks to loosen oversight; union decries 'midnight' move

By Sam Biddle,  Newser Staff

Posted Jul 23, 2008 1:43 PM CDT

(Newser) – The Department of Labor is rushing to push through policy that would make it more difficult to regulate workers’ exposure to toxins, the Washington Post reports. The proposal was never publicly disclosed, as required by law, but rather surfaced on the website of the White...   Read full story »

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