OSHA is coming down harder on companies that clean railroad tanker cars and truck tanker trailers under a new inspection program covering Texas and adjacent states.

President Joe Biden said he’ll require federal workers to prove they’ve been vaccinated against Covid-19 or wear masks and submit to frequent coronavirus testing as the highly contagious delta variant is causing cases to spike in the U.S.

Members of a U.S. Senate subcommittee bore down on the lack of experience among three nominees for a federal chemical safety board, and at the same time questioned the nominees keenly during a confirmation hearing about how they would address a growing backlog of cases at the agency.

A federal judge granted private prison giant CoreCivic Inc.’s request to pause trial court proceedings pending its appeal of a class certification ruling in a lawsuit in which immigration detainees claim the company coerced them to work without pay.

The resurgent coronavirus and return of mask recommendations are hampering corporate America’s plans to get back to normalcy.

The U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board will deploy a team to the site of a toxic chemical leak that killed two workers and injured 30 others at the LyondellBasell facility in La Porte, Texas, near Houston Tuesday evening.