Trump's War on OSHA Could Spell the End for Biden-Era Heat Protections
In July 2024, the Biden administration proposed a rule to address heat-related illness that it claimed would protect 36 million workers.
The directive would have required companies to monitor workers for heat stress, provide them with cool-down breaks in shaded or air-conditioned areas, and ensure that they were given ample water.
“The purpose of this rule is simple,” a White House official told reporters at the time. “It is to significantly reduce the number of worker-related deaths, injuries, and illnesses suffered by workers exposed to excessive heat … while simply doing their jobs.”
The rule would have represented the first federal standard aimed at regulating the increasing dangers of climate change, but it was never finalized. And now, with Donald Trump in the White House, there is very little hope that it will be implemented.
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