The Trump Administration’s Anti-Regulation Rhetoric Is Putting American Workers & The Environment At Risk

How The Trump Administrations Anti-Regulation Message Will Hurt American Workers, Local Communities & The Environment   The Trump Administration's anti-regulation rhetoric, combined with recent environmental, health and safety roll backs, is likely creating a “perception problem” among some business leaders that these regulations are no longer relevant or important. For example, I’ve heard several of our customers joke or comment about this issue in recent months. The common theme being, “Now that Trump’s in office, we don’t need to worry about [...]

By |2020-06-02T11:46:21-05:00March 8th, 2017|Fed Regulation, Government Regulation, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, State & Local Regulation, Texas Hazardous Materials Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off on The Trump Administration’s Anti-Regulation Rhetoric Is Putting American Workers & The Environment At Risk

Will The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Reform Agenda Include Roll-Back of EHS Regulations That Impact Industry and Small Businesses?

Update:  As it turns out, the Trump administration had minimal overall impact on environmental, health and safety compliance issues as they pertain to most businesses. There's no doubt that the administration did negatively impact the environment by rolling back Obama era protections, and pulling back from the Paris accords, but these moves didn't directly impact US business. On the OSHA front, Trump probably recognized that his blue collar base of support wouldn't appreciate damaging safety protections, so we saw little [...]

By |2021-08-05T10:29:18-05:00January 8th, 2017|Fed Regulation, Good To Know, Government Regulation, OSHA Texas Laws & Regulations, State & Local Regulation, Texas Environmental Regulations, Texas OSHA Compliance|Comments Off on Will The Trump Administration’s Regulatory Reform Agenda Include Roll-Back of EHS Regulations That Impact Industry and Small Businesses?

Will Trump Roll Back EHS Regulations?

Update: Since taking office, the Biden administration has re-instituted many of these changes instituted by the Trump administration and clearly stated their commitment to workplace health and safety and enforcement. We decided to maintain this blog post as a reminder as to how an administration can quickly change environmental, health and safety regulations, even during a short 4 year term. Update:  The blog post below was originally posted at the start of the Trump presidency.  Since then, many of these [...]

By |2021-08-17T13:32:12-05:00November 14th, 2016|Fed Regulation|Comments Off on Will Trump Roll Back EHS Regulations?